Place:


Shotts Iron Works  Lanarkshire

 

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Shotts Iron Works like this:

Shotts Ironworks, a village on the border of Shotts and Cambusnethan parishes, Lanarkshire, near Shotts railway station, and 9¼ miles E of Holytown. It has pig-iron works with six furnaces. Pop. (1861) 1335, (1871) 1208, (1881) 969, of whom 543 were males and 426 females, while 740 were in the Shotts portion of the village.

Shotts Iron Works through time

Shotts Iron Works is now part of North Lanarkshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Lanarkshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Shotts Iron Works itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shotts Iron Works in North Lanarkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22399

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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