New Lanark is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Clyde Valley of Scotland. Its mills were built to process cotton using the water power of the Clyde. The village used to have 2,000 residents, now it has about 150. This website has been created to provide information and a forum for residents and anybody else interested in the village. It is independent of both the New Lanark Trust and the New Lanark Village Group.
There are now three bus services operating from New Lanark. One goes to the car park and the other two to Lanark.
Perhaps more visitors would use these services if there was a marked bus stop and posted timetables. At the moment visitors have to guess when and where buses will go.
Only 230 years after Rosedale Street was laid down it has been given a tar macadam surface. No more potholes or loose gravel. Kudos to the New Lanark Trust for organising the work. It will add to the value of the Long Row And Double Row houses and to the appearance of the village.
The road into New Lanark is an example of a Lanarkshire Red Road. It has a dense layer of red gravel chips from the quarry at Cloburn. Unfortunately, the top layer of the Rosedale tar macadam only has a thin covering of red chips and looks more black than red. Less than half the red chips needed have been used, though there are chips available on site. A red surface would have looked better and been more appropriate. There have been complaints that the surface is slippery when wet.
