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Monkland Canal is a section of the historic waterway that stretches from near Cuilhill Road to West Canal Street in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The canal was constructed during the late eighteenth century to transport coal and ironstone from the productive coalfields of the region to markets downstrea…

Monkland Canal, Gartsherrie Branch, Summerlee is a canal branch in Lanarkshire that served the industrial heartland of nineteenth-century central Scotland. Built to transport coal, ironstone and manufactured goods from the surrounding collieries and ironworks, the branch connected to the main Mon…

Monkland Canal, Netherhouse Road to Cuilhill Road, is a section of one of Scotland's earliest industrial waterways, constructed to serve the coalfields and ironworks of central Lanarkshire. The canal section lies in an area of complex geology where the underlying Scottish Coal Measures Group has…

Summerlee Iron Works is a furnaces, furnace bank and associated works located in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The site exploits the rich mineral resources of the underlying Scottish Coal Measures Group bedrock, which dates to the Moscovian period and comprises mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, iron…

Monkland Canal, Coatbank Street to Paddock Street, Coatbridge is a segment of the early industrial waterway system that served the coalfields and ironworks of central Lanarkshire. The canal was engineered to transport coal and iron extracted from the Scottish Coal Measures Group strata that under…

Monkland Canal, Paddock Street to intersection with North Calder Water, is a canal section in Lanarkshire, Scotland, now designated as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland (SM11344). The canal traverses terrain underlain by the Scottish Coal Measures Group, a Moscovian-age seq…