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Co. [County] Lanark -- Bothwell Parish
Bothwell Parish/ continued
at Carnbroe & Chapelhall & at Mossend there is a Malleable Iron Works. A part of the great " Monkland Iron & Steel" Co's. Works of Calderbanks, in old Monklands Parish, which resides in this Parish. The same Company are Lessees of the largest Coalfields in the Parish. The following Estates have been all bought for minerals those ==show their extent- Carnbroe, Woodhall including the other Collieries on this Estate (woodhall) named Thankerton & Legbranock. Jerviston. Carfin. Stevenston. Cleland & Newarthill To each of these Collieries there are schools attached & numerous houses for Colliers are continually being erected and and destroyed as most Suitable. This Great Coalfield may be said to extend to the eastern Parish By. from Plains XII.5 - a distance of about 31/2 miles wide by nearly three in length. The east end of the is full of Mineral Rail Roads (Private). The Clydesdale Sumation & the Wishaw & Coltness Section of the Caledonian Railway pass through the parish. The principal Antiquities in the parish are Bothwell Castle in ruins. Bothwell Bridge and a Roman Bridge over the South Calder on the line of the Roman Road called Watlin or Watling Street.
Note
"There is not any portion of the Parish of Bothwell
detached within any other Parish, nor is there any portion of any other Parish contained within the bounds of this Parish,"