Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Heywood

Heywood, a collier village in Carnwath parish, E Lanarkshire, with a station on the Auchengray and Wilsontown branch of the Caledonian railway, 1¼ mile E by S of Wilsontown. It has a post office under Lanark, a public school, and an Established chapel of ease (1878). Pop. (1871) 793, (1881) 1121.—Ord. Sur., sh. 23, 1865.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a collier village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Carnwath ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty

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