Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirkwood or Braehead

Kirkwood or Braehead, a collier village in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, 2 miles SW of Coatbridge. Pop. (1871) 491, (1881) 667.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a collier village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Old Monkland Parish       Lanarkshire County
Place names: BRAEHEAD     |     KIRKWOOD     |     KIRKWOOD OR BRAEHEAD

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