New Monkland, Lanarkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about New Monkland. You may be able to find further references to New Monkland in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Monkland, New parish Bartholomew
Monkland, New a village and a parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with New Monkland.

Place Type of entry Source
Airdrie Hill a property Groome
Airdrie Hill place with public school Bartholomew
Arden a suburb of Airdrie Groome
Arden village Bartholomew
Auchingray an estate, with a mansion Groome
Avonhead a village Groome
Avonhead village Bartholomew
Ballochney a village Groome
Ballochney village, suburban to Bartholomew
Broomknoll a suburb or street of Airdrie Groome
Broomknoll suburb Bartholomew
Cairnhill an estate Groome
Caldercruix a station Groome
Drumgelloch a village Groome
Drumgray a village Groome
East Langrigg village Bartholomew
Gain school Bartholomew
Glenboig a village Groome
Greengairs mining village Bartholomew
Greengairs a collier village Groome
Langrigg, East, and Langrigg, West 2 villages Bartholomew
Longriggend village with railway station Bartholomew
Longriggend a place Groome
Peesweep Row village Bartholomew
Plains village with railway station Bartholomew
Riggend village Bartholomew
Riggend a village Groome
Rochsoles an estate, with a mansion Groome
Rochsoles seat Bartholomew
Rougbrigg village Bartholomew
Wattston a village Groome
Wattston village Bartholomew
Westfield part of Bartholomew
Whiterigg a railway station Groome

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Ballochney 0 2
Airdrie 0 2
Glenboig 0 2
Gartsherrie 1 2
Coatbridge 0 2
Clarkston 0 2
Garturk 0 2
Calder 0 2
Garnqueen 0 2
Carnbroe 0 2
Plains 0 1
Faskine 0 2
Greengairs 0 2
Calderbank 0 2
Gartcosh 0 1
Chapelhall 0 2
Old Monkland 0 2
Condorrat 0 2
Moodiesburn 0 2
Bargeddie 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for New Monkland. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
MONKLAND John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
MONKLAND NEW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
NEW MONKLAND John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.