Wattston is a village on the B803, west of
Greengairs in
North Lanarkshire,
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
. Between them Wattston and Greengairs have about 1,190 residents. It is around 4 km south of
Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...
, and 4 km north of
Airdrie. Other places nearby include
Caldercruix,
Longriggend,
Riggend and
Slamannan.
There is still
open cast mining
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow.
This form of mining ...
in this former mining village. The village was badly affected by the
Stanrigg Mining Disaster where, in July 1918, a collapse led to the deaths of 19 local mine workers.
The 98th corps of the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers was headquartered at Wattston.
See also
*
List of places in North Lanarkshire
*
List of places in Scotland
This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland.
*List of burghs in Scotland
*List of census localities in Scotland
*List of islands of Scotland
**List of Shetland islands
**List of Orkney islands
**List o ...
References
External links
RCAHMS record of Wattston, New MonklandCANMORE/RCAHMS record of Wattston, GeneralGeograph image of Stanrigg Memorial Park, Wattston
Villages in North Lanarkshire
{{NorthLanarkshire-geo-stub