Monklands was an ancient parish in the Scottish county of

Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (; ), is a Counties of Scotland, historic county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area and registration county in the Central Lowlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland. The county is no l ...

. In 1641 the parish was divided between: *New Monkland (present-day

Airdrie, North Lanarkshire Airdrie (; ; ) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau 400 ft (130 m) above sea level, 12 miles (19 km) east of Glasgow. , it had a population of 37,130. Airdrie developed as a market town in the late 17th ce ...

) *Old Monkland (present-day

Coatbridge Coatbridge (, ) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. Along with neighbouring town Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Airdrie, Coatbridge forms the area known as the Monklands (popula ...

). 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. History The district was created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act ...

that was formerly (1975–96) a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland **

Monklands Hospital University Hospital Monklands is a district general hospital in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It serves a population of approximately 260,000 people of North and South Lanarkshire council areas and is managed by NHS Lanarkshire. Histor ...

in the area **

Monklands East (UK Parliament constituency) Monklands East was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliamen ...

, 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 First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also c ...

, 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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