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Holytown, town and quoad sacra par. with ry. st.a. (Holytown Junction, 1 mile W.), Bothwell par., Lanarkshire, 11 miles SE. of Glasgow - quoad sacra par., pop. 10,449; town (inclnding New Stevenston, pop. 1048), pop. 2480; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; is situated in a productive portion of the Lanarkshire mineral field, and is a place of great mineral industry and traffic.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "town and quoad sacra parish" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Lanarkshire County |
| Place: | Holytown |
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