🏭 New Lanark
18th-century cotton mill village and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the River Clyde
📌 Fast Facts
- Founded 1786 by David Dale as a cotton manufacturing settlement
- Managed from 1800 by social reformer Robert Owen, who implemented progressive worker policies
- UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001
- Located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, approximately 40 km south of Glasgow
New Lanark is a preserved industrial village situated on the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Built as a cotton mill settlement beginning in 1786, it became a significant site of social and industrial experimentation during the late 18th and 19th centuries. The village remains substantially intact, with mills, workers' housing, schools, and communal buildings reflecting early industrial-era planning and Robert Owen's influential experiments in worker welfare and community design ...