New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometres) from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of...

Hamilton. Notable landmarks nearby include New Lanark, the Corra Linn and the site of Lanark Castle. Lanark railway station and bus interchange have frequent...

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig; Scots: Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration...

education. He gained wealth in the early 1800s from a textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. Having trained as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire he worked...

Third Lanark Athletic Club was a Scottish football club based in Glasgow. Founded in 1872 as an offshoot of the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, the club...

mills in New Lanark, where he provided social and educational conditions far in advance of anything available anywhere else in the UK. New Lanark attracted...

Every June the town of Lanark in Scotland celebrates Lanimer Week. The festivities reach a high point on the Thursday of Lanimer Week which is the gala...

Lanark is a ghost town in Doña Ana County, New Mexico about 30 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas and close to Kilbourne Hole. Lanark had a U.S. Post Office...

New Harmony while he traveled east to continue promoting his model community and returned to Scotland, where he sold his interests in the New Lanark textile...

collective name of three linn (Scots: waterfalls) on the River Clyde near New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Falls of Clyde comprise the upper falls...

attempts at offering philanthropic welfare to workers was made at the New Lanark mills in Scotland by the social reformer Robert Owen. He became manager...

The Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme consists of two hydroelectric plants in the Clydesdale area of South Lanarkshire, Scotland. They are run-of-the-river...

towns such as Lanark, Strathaven and Carluke, the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town. East Kilbride...

Lanark County is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its county seat is Perth, which was first settled in 1816 and was known as a social...

early 20th centuries, it was known as Lanark-on-the-Gulf. Lanark-on-the-Gulf was a resort with a large hotel, the Lanark Inn, patronized principally by people...

Maritime Greenwich, UNESCO, retrieved 29 July 2009 New Lanark, UNESCO, retrieved 28 July 2009 Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, UNESCO, retrieved 12 August...

opened the first British and probably globally the first infant school in New Lanark, Scotland. In conjunction with his venture for cooperative mills Owen...

Lanark is the county town of Lanarkshire, Scotland. Lanark may also refer to: Lanark, Illinois, a city Lanark, New Mexico, a ghost town Lanark, Pennsylvania...

opened the first British and probably globally the first infants school in New Lanark, Scotland. In conjunction with his venture for cooperative mills, Owen...

Robert Owen, from Newtown in mid-Wales, and his partners purchased the New Lanark mill from Owen's father-in-law, David Dale, and proceeded to introduce...

for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at the New Lanark mills, and is often[quantify] regarded as one of the key thinkers of the...

Lanark and Hamilton East was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was first used at the 2005 general...

and an image of the model industrial settlement of New Lanark on the back. On 27 February 2020, a new polymer £20 note was introduced to replace the paper...

for at least the first two years of any new Labour government. After its election victory in May 1997, the new government considered multiple options for...

2015 general election; the Lanark County and Frontenac components of the riding were redistributed to the new district of Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, while...

Carleton—Mississippi Mills (formerly known as Lanark—Carleton and Carleton—Lanark) was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented...

around the workplace. An early example of an industrial model village was New Lanark built by Robert Owen. Philanthropic coal owners provided decent accommodation...

Lanark Racecourse (closed October 1977) was a Scottish horse racing venue, situated in the small town of Lanark in Scotland's Central Belt, 25 miles (40 km)...

below. They are: St. Kilda Edinburgh Old Town and New Town The Heart of Neolithic Orkney New Lanark The Antonine Wall The Forth Bridge St. Kilda is a...

comedian, born in Wormit. MacKay, George (2003). Scottish Place Names. New Lanark: Geddes and Grosset. p. 96. "Fife Place-name Data :: Wormit". fife-placenames...