Coalburn

Village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Human settlement in Scotland

Community council

Council area

55°35′N 3°53′W / 55.59°N 3.89°W / 55.59; -3.89

Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. It is located near the villages of Auchlochan, Bankend and Braehead.

History

The opencast mine that opened in the village in the late 1980s became the biggest mine in Europe by the early 1990s.^[3]

In 2010 the village had a population of 1,267.^[4] This declined to 1,220 in a mid 2020 estimate.

Coalburn Primary is a primary school in Coalburn.^[5] Their affiliated high school Lesmahagow High School is in the neighbouring town of Lesmahagow.^[6]

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^ "Mid-2012 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^ The Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine coalburnheritage.org.uk
^ Current Population (2010) Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ http://www.coalburn-pri.s-lanark.sch.uk/about-coalburn-primary/ ^{[dead link]}
^ "Lesmahagow High School".