Allanton is a village on the A71, in

North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire ( sco, North Lanrikshire; gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also ...

, Scotland. Allanton Colliery was the last

colliery Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

to be built and the first colliery to be taken over by the

National Coal Board The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "v ...

in 1951. Allanton Primary school was opened in 1927 and a nursery school added in 1999. Places nearby include Hartwood (1.3 miles/2.1 km),

Newmains Newmains is a village and former mining community on the eastern edge of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south-east of Glasgow. Although it is considered by the local authority to have a town centre in its own right. History The story of a ...

(2.3 miles/3.7 km),

Shotts Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow () and Edinburgh (). The village has a population of about 8,840. A local story has Shotts being named after the legendary giant highwayman Bertram de ...

(2.8 miles/4.5 km) and

Wishaw Wishaw ( sco, Wishae or Wisha ; gd, Camas Neachdain) is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, south-east of Glasgow city centre. The Burgh of Wishaw was formed in 1855 within Lanarkshire. it formed ...

(4.4 miles/7.1 km). Allanton North Lanarkshire main street

References

RLS Pathfinder Pack on the Coal Industry 1900 - 1950
* http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5751 Last accessed 0 March 2013

External links

SCRAN image of Surface layout, Kingshill No.1 Colliery, Allanton, LanarkshireSCRAN image of Oblique aerial view of Loudounhill Sand and Gravel Pit, near Allanton, LanarkshireNorth Lanarkshire Council: Allanton Primary School and Nursery classWishaw Press, June 2010, "Allanton Primary School's eco week"
Villages in North Lanarkshire Mining communities in Scotland {{NorthLanarkshire-geo-stub

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