Allanton is a village on the A71, in

North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the north-east of the Glasgow City council area and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs, commuter towns, and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk (co ...

, Scotland. Allanton Colliery was the last

colliery Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. 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 extra ...

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 "ve ...

in 1951. Allanton Primary school was opened in 1927 and a nursery school added in 1999. Places nearby include

Hartwood Hartwood (, ) is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Nearby settlements include Shotts, Allanton, North Lanarkshire, Allanton and Bonkle. The area is rural, with fewer than 50 houses. Transport is provided at Hartwood railway station, op ...

(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 ...

(2.3 miles/3.7 km),

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

(2.8 miles/4.5 km) and

Wishaw Wishaw (; ; ) is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the River Clyde, Clyde Valley, south-east of Glasgow city centre. The town is part of the Motherwell and Wishaw (UK Parliament constituency), Motherwell and Wishaw c ...

(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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