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New page: Lanarkshire is a county of central Scotland. In the 19th and 20th century it was a major industrial centre with extensive coal mines, and iron and steel works in the Motherwell and...
Lanarkshire is a county of central [[Scotland]]. In the 19th and 20th century it was a major industrial centre with extensive coal mines, and iron and steel works in the [[Motherwell]] and [[Wishaw]] areas. Other major industries included shipbuilding, railway carriage manufacture, crane and construction equipment manufacture, and the manufacture of prefabricated bridge parts.

[[New Lanark]], in the south of the county, is a utopian factory comunity founded by [[Robert Owen]].

92% of the fortified wine produced by the [[Buckfast]] monastic community in [[Devon]], [[England]], is sold in Lanarkshire.
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