Bothwellhaugh
place and village
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Wikidata WikipediaBothwellhaugh was a Scottish coal mining village housing Hamilton Palace Colliery workers and their families. Locals referred to the village as The Pailis. It was located near to the towns of Motherwell, Bellshill and Hamilton in Lanarkshire, being occupied from the mid-1880s until it was demolished in 1965.
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
This cairn was erected on the site of the former mining village of Bothwellhaugh. In its heyday in the 1920s it was a thriving community of approximately 2,000 people. At its centre the Hamilton Palace Colliery, virtually the sole employer and the way of life for the entire village. When the colliery finally closed in 1959 the village slowly died and by the 1960s nothing was left but memories. To all the people who ever lived there it was always affectionately known as "The Pailis"
off Hamilton Road, Strathclyde Country Park, Bothwell, United Kingdom where it was