Coatbridge

Coatbridge, a thriving manufacturing town in Lanarkshire, 9 miles E. of Glasgow by rail, and 32 W. by S. of Edinburgh. The centre of a great mineral district, it is surrounded by numerous blast-furnaces, and produces malleable iron, boilers, tubes, tin-plate, firebricks and tiles, and railway wagons. Coatbridge has grown very rapidly in size and prosperity—a growth largely due to the development of the Gartsherrie Iron-works of Messrs Baird (q.v.), first put in blast, 4th May 1830. Pop. (1831) 741; (1851) 8564; (1871) 15,802; (1881) 18,425; (1891) 30,034. In 1885 Coatbridge was made a municipal burgh. See A. Miller's Rise and Progress of Coatbridge (Glas. 1864).