New Lanark

New Lanark Scottish Gaelic: Lannraig Ùr
New Lanark Mill Hotel and Waterhouses by River Clyde
New Lanark Location within South Lanarkshire
Population	200 (approx.)
Council area	South Lanarkshire
Lieutenancy area	Lanarkshire
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LANARK
Postcode district	ML11
Dialling code	01555
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish Parliament	Clydesdale
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Criteria	Cultural: ii, iv, vi
Reference	429
Inscription	2001 (25th Session)
Area	146 ha (361 acres)
Buffer zone	667 ha (1,648 acres)
List of places UK Scotland 55°40′N 3°47′W / 55.66°N 3.78°W / 55.66; -3.78

New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometres) from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1785 and opened in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers. Dale built the mills there in a brief partnership with the English inventor and entrepreneur Richard Arkwright to take advantage of the water power provided by the only waterfalls on the River Clyde. Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a Welsh utopian socialist and philanthropist, New Lanark became a successful business and an early example of a planned settlement and so an important milestone in the historical development of urban planning.^[1]

The New Lanark mills operated until 1968. After a period of decline, the New Lanark Conservation Trust (NLCT) was founded in 1974 (now known as the New Lanark Trust (NLT)) to prevent demolition of the village. By 2006 most of the buildings have been restored and the village has become a major tourist attraction. It is one of six UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland^[2] and an Anchor Point of ERIH – the European Route of Industrial Heritage.