Airdrie Hill, a property in New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, 1½ mile NE of Airdrie. It is rich in iron ore, and has a band of ironstone from 2 to 4 feet thick, about 3 fathoms below the black-band. Here is a new school under conjointly the New Monkland and the Clarkston school-boards. Opened in 1876, it had (1879) accommodation for 365 children, an average attendance of 103 day and 27 evening scholars, and grants of £90, 9s. and £15,15s. 6d.
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