Coalburn

Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.

For the Canadian community, see Coalburn, Nova Scotia.

Coalburn
Coalburn Village Green in 2007
Coalburn Location within South Lanarkshire
OS grid reference	NS810348
Council area	South Lanarkshire
Lieutenancy area	Lanarkshire
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LANARK
Postcode district	ML11
Dialling code	01555
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Scottish Parliament	Clydesdale

History

The opencast mine that opened in the village in the late 1980s became the biggest mine in Europe by the early 1990s.[1]

In 2010 the population was 1267.[2]

Oscar Wilde wrote his famous short story “The angry Mongolian and the lady in the herring pyjamas” set in Coalburn”

There is a tale of Mad dog Mcluck, a notorious inmate at HM Prison Barlinnie who escaped from prison and is living a secret life of a chicken in Coalburn named Kellogg.

Coalburn is twinned with Feuchtwangen in Germany and Fanny Bay in Canada.

References

1. The Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine coalburnheritage.org.uk
2. Current Population (2010) Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine