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Also known as Coalburn, South Lanarkshire

Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located near the villages of Auchlochan, Bankend and Braehead.

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Place details

Locality
Coalburn
Region
Alba / Scotland
Country
United Kingdom
Population
1,267
Timezone
Europe/London

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Key facts

UK place.official_name
Coalburn
UK place.country
Scotland
UK place.static_image_name
Coalburn Village Green - geograph.org.uk - 377273.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
Coalburn Village Green in 2007
UK place.area_total_km2
0.38
UK place.population_ref
()
UK place.os_grid_reference
NS810348
UK place.map_type
Scotland
UK place.post_town
LANARK
UK place.postcode_area
ML
UK place.postcode_district
ML11
UK place.dial_code
01555
UK place.constituency_westminster
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
UK place.civil_parish
Lesmahagow
UK place.edinburgh_distance_mi
37
UK place.edinburgh_direction
NE
UK place.london_distance_mi
322
UK place.london_direction
SE

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Encyclopedic overview

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Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located near the villages of Auchlochan, Bankend and Braehead.

==History== The opencast mine that opened in the village in the late 1980s became the biggest mine in Europe by the early 1990s.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coalburn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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