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New Lanark Scottish Gaelic: Lannraig xc3x99rNew Lanark Mill Hotel and Waterhouses by River ClydeNew LanarkLocation within South LanarkshirePopulation200xc2xa0(approx. | WIKI |
New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometres) from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some 25 miles (40xc2xa0km) southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. | WIKI |
Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a Welsh philanthropist and social reformer, New Lanark became a successful business and an early example of a planned settlement and so an important milestone in the historical development of urban planning. | WIKI |
The New Lanark mills operated until 1968. | WIKI |
After a period of decline, the New Lanark Conservation Trust (NLCT) was founded in 1974 (now known as the New Lanark Trust (NLT)) to prevent demolition of the village. | WIKI |
Contents 1 History 2 Living conditions 3 New Lanark today 4 Historic maps 5 Buildings 6 Visiting New Lanark 7 See also 8 References 8.1 General 9 External links | WIKI |
The New Lanark cotton mills were founded in 1786 by David Dale in a brief partnership with Richard Arkwright. | WIKI |
New Lanark, with its social and welfare programmes, epitomised his Utopian socialism (see also Owenism). | WIKI |
The New Lanark mills depended upon water power. | WIKI |
A dam was constructed on the Clyde above New Lanark and water was drawn off the river to power the mill machinery. | WIKI |
Water power is still used in New Lanark. | WIKI |
In Owen's time some 2,500 people lived at New Lanark, many from the poorhouses of Glasgow and Edinburgh. | WIKI |
New Lanark became celebrated throughout Europe, with many statesmen, reformers and royalty visiting the mills. | WIKI |
In 1825, control of New Lanark passed to the Walker family when Owen left Britain to start settlement of New Harmony in the US. | WIKI |
[4] The top two floors of Mill Number 1 were removed in 1945 but the building has since been restored and is now the New Lanark Mill Hotel. | WIKI |
In 1963 the New Lanark Association (NLA) was formed as a housing association and commenced the restoration of Caithness Row and Nursery Buildings. | WIKI |
[7] They are now controlled by the NLT, either directly through the Trust or through wholly owned companies (New Lanark Trading Ltd, New Lanark Hotel Ltd and New Lanark Homes). | WIKI |
Some sense of such living conditions can be obtained by visiting the reconstructed Millworkers House at New Lanark World Heritage Site or the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre. | WIKI |
David Dale, who founded New Lanark, was also involved in the mills at Blantyre. | WIKI |
This is mostly devoted to David Livingstone, who was born there in 1813, both examples include re-creations of the single-room living conditions of the time at New Lanark, featuring trundle beds for children such as Livingstone would have used. | WIKI |
The David Livingstone Centre is 18 miles by road from New Lanark, between Glasgow and Hamilton. | WIKI |
From 1938 the village proprietors provided free electricity to all the homes in New Lanark, but only enough power was available for one dim bulb in each room. | WIKI |
In 1955 New Lanark was connected to the National Grid. | WIKI |
Dereliction in New Lanark in 1983. | WIKI |
New Lanark today[edit] | WIKI |
The importance of New Lanark has been recognised by UNESCO as one of Scotland's six World Heritage Sites, the others being Edinburgh Old and New Towns, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, St Kilda, the Antonine Wall and the Forth Bridge. | WIKI |
About 130 people live in New Lanark. | WIKI |
In 2009 Clydesdale Bank released a new series of Scottish banknotes, of which the 20-pound note features New Lanark on its reverse. | WIKI |
It was once operated by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association but is now managed by the New Lanark Mill Hotel. | WIKI |
The building became derelict and was renovated and rebuilt as the New Lanark Mill Hotel. | WIKI |
Graveyard xe2x80x93 on the hill above New Lanark, between the village and the visitors' car park. | WIKI |
1 & 2 New Lanark Road (locally known as the twin houses) xe2x80x93 two opposing two-storey gatehouses some distance from the village. | WIKI |
These marked the entrance to New Lanark. | WIKI |
Visiting New Lanark[edit] | WIKI |
New Lanark is just over one mile from the Lanark rail and bus stations. | WIKI |
The village has a four-star hotel [the New Lanark Mill Hotel], holiday flats [the Waterhouses], and Wee Row which provides hostel type accommodation. | WIKI |
All are owned and operated by the New Lanark Conservation Trust. | WIKI |
New Lanark is an exceptional example of a purpose-built 18th century mill village, set in a picturesque Scottish landscape near the Falls of Clyde, where in the early years of the 19th century, the Utopian idealist Robert Owen (1771-1858) inspired a model industrial community based on textile production. | UNESCO |
New Lanark prospered under his enlightened management. | UNESCO |
The creation of the model industrial settlement at New Lanark, in which planning and architecture were integrated with a humane concern on the part of the employers for the well-being of the workers, is a milestone in social and industrial history. | UNESCO |
The moral, social and environmental values which underpinned Robert Owen's work at New Lanark provided the basis for seminal material and intangible developments that have had lasting influences on society over the past two hundred years. | UNESCO |
New Lanark is a unique reminder that the creation of wealth does not automatically imply the degradation of its producers. | UNESCO |
The nature and layout of New Lanark inspired other benevolent industrialists to follow his example, and this movement laid the foundations for the work of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) in creating the concept of the Garden City. | UNESCO |
Criterion (ii): When Richard Arkwrightxe2x80x99s new factory system for textile production was brought to New Lanark the need to provide housing and other facilities for the workers and managers was recognised. | UNESCO |
Criterion (iv): New Lanark saw the construction not only of well designed and equipped workersxe2x80x99 housing but also public buildings designed to improve their spiritual as well as their physical needs. | UNESCO |
Criterion (vi): The name of New Lanark is synonymous with that of Robert Owen and his social philosophy in matters such as progressive education, factory reform, humane working practices, international cooperation, and garden cities, which was to have a profound influence on social developments throughout the 19th century and beyond. | UNESCO |
The level of authenticity at New Lanark is high. | UNESCO |
The management of the World Heritage property New Lanark is the responsibility of its three main partners: South Lanarkshire Council, Historic Scotland and the New Lanark Trust. | UNESCO |
The New Lanark Management Plan is endorsed and strategically overseen by the management partners, who also assume responsibility for its implementation. | UNESCO |
The sustainable management of tourism at New Lanark is addressed in the Management Plan. | UNESCO |