New Lanark World Heritage Site

Official name

New Lanark | UNESCO

Country

United Kingdom | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

South Lanarkshire, Scotland
55.6633° Lat, -3.7830° Lon | Map

Code

429

Time Zone

Europe/London (GMT, +0000)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2001. New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism.