Monklands was an ancient parish in the Scottish county of

Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannraig; sco, Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scotlan ...

. In 1641 the parish was divided between: *New Monkland (present-day Airdrie, North Lanarkshire) *Old Monkland (present-day Coatbridge). Monklands may now refer to: *

Monklands (district) Monklands (''Bad nam Manach'' in Scottish Gaelic) was, between 1975 and 1996, one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland. The district was formed by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 from: *The burg ...

that was formerly (1975–96) a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland ** Monklands Hospital in the area ** Monklands East (UK Parliament constituency), 1983 to 1997 **

Monklands West (UK Parliament constituency) Monklands West was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral sy ...

, 1983 to 1997 Additionally: * The Monklands was the name of the mansion where the Governor General of Canada lived from 1844 to 1849, before it was bought by nuns and turned into the Villa María girls school

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