Coalburn
Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.
| Coalburn | |
|---|---|
 Coalburn Village Green in 2007 | |
  Coalburn Location within South Lanarkshire | |
| OS grid reference | NS810348 |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LANARK |
| Postcode district | ML11 |
| Dialling code | 01555 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coalburn, South Lanarkshire. |
- The Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine coalburnheritage.org.uk
- Current Population (2010) Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
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