Lanark
Lanark,
former county town of Lanarkshire, is a small town on the middle River
Clyde with a population of 9000. Lanark is primarily a market town
serving a wide agricultural community in the surrounding farms and
villages. It has a large modern market and good road and rail links with
Glasgow. The nearby River Clyde is renowned for its excellent brown
trout and grayling fishing. Many of the town's residents now travel to work in Glasgow or
Edinburgh. The town has historical links with William Wallace, of whom
there is a statue in the town. A popular visitor attraction is the restored
industrial village of New Lanark, situated below the Falls of Clyde, where
industrialist and social reformer Robert Owen made efforts to improve
the working and living conditions of the workers in the local cotton
mill in the nineteenth century.
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