A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Carfin, a collier village in Bothwell parish, NE Lanarkshire, 1¾ mile NE of Motherwell, under which it has a post office. At it are a reading-room, St Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic church (1881), and three schools-boys', girls', and Roman Catholic. With respective accommodation for 110,127, and 193 children, these had (1880) an average attendance of 88,79, and 263, and grants of £86,11s., £69,2s. 6d., and £179,14s. Carfin House stands ½ mile to the S, on the right bank of South Calder Water. Pop. (1861) 1342, (1871) 1111, (1881) 1229.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a collier village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bothwell ScoP Lanarkshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Carfin |
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