Lanark

Lanark stands above the River Clyde in southern Scotland. The old royal burgh is associated with William Wallace, who killed the English sheriff here in 1297 during the uprising against Edward I's occupation. Wallace went on to join Andrew Moray in defeating an English army at Stirling Bridge. Downriver from the town, the falls of the Clyde powered the cotton mills of New Lanark, founded in the late eighteenth century. Under Robert Owen, the mill village became known for experiments in education and the welfare of its workers. Its mills and planned housing gave a new industrial character to the valley below the old burgh.