Blantyre, or HIGH BLANTYRE, a village of Lanarkshire, situated near the right bank of the Rotten Calder, 8½ miles SE. of Glasgow by rail, in a coal and iron mining district. Population, 2255.
Low Blantyre, 1¾ miles NE., has dyeworks, and a weaving factory where young David Livingstone, the future African traveller, and a native of the place, worked as a 'piecer;' here also are his memorial church and statue. Population, 1505.—Also the name of a Scottish mission-station founded in 1876, to the south of Lake Nyassa, Central Africa. It is situated on the heights between the Upper Shiré and Lake Shirwa, in a well-wooded district.