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	New Lanark - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The New Lanark mills were founded in 1784 next to the town of Lanark, and subsequently purchased by a partnership that included Robert Owen in the early nineteenth century.
		New Lanark, with its social and welfare programmes, epitomised his utopian socialism.
		New Lanark became celebrated throughout Europe with many leading royals, statesmen and reformers visiting the mills.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/New_Lanark (264 words)

	New Lanark Intro Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		New Lanark was created principally by David Dale, who ran it from its inception in 1785 until New Year's Eve 1799.
		But by far the most remarkable thing about New Lanark is the way the industrial history, the social history, the superb restoration and the beautiful natural environment have been brought together to produce a truly living and thriving village with a wide range of attractions for visitors.
		New Lanark Mill Hotel focuses on the hotel housed largely in the restored Mill 1.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /lanark/newlanark/index.html (590 words)

	Lanark - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Lanark is located 40 km (25 mi) south-east of Glasgow on the River Clyde and is the market centre...
		Lanark Blue, blue, ewe's milk cheese with an attractively herby flavour, which has a salty tang to it.
		Lanark Blue is produced on a single farm in...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Lanark.html (84 words)

	The Creation of New Lanark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Owen transformed life in New Lanark with ideas and opportunities which were at least a hundred years ahead of their time.
		New Lanark became world renowned as one of the earliest experiments in creating a civilised working environment and improved living conditions for a workforce as part of a large scale mechanised industrial process.
		Initially, there was the New Lanark mills [1784], then at Stanley in Perthshire [1786], both with Arkwright and Dale, and then at Spinningdale on the Skibo estates.
	www.highlandclearances.info /clearances/clearances_newlanark.htm (622 words)

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		New Lanark’s Buffer Zone includes the designed landscapes of the estates flanking the Falls of Clyde, the open land and parks between Lanark and New Lanark and the burgh of Lanark itself.
		New Lanark Association (Mill Number 3, New Lanark Mills, Lanark, ML11 9DB) is a small housing association that partnered the trust in the restoration and development of the village.
		In 1996 of the New Lanark Conservation Area was enlarged to encompass the opposite bank and horizon in response to pressure to develop a hotel and housing, on the horizon west of New Lanark.
	www.historic-scotland.gov.uk /working_draft_june_2003-2.doc (18684 words)

	New Lanark World Heritage Site
		Founded in 1785, New Lanark first rose to fame in the early 19th century as a model community under the enlightened management of Robert Owen.
		New Lanark's fascinating history is brought back to life in the Visitor Centre, where visitors can explore the village with one passport ticket.
		A magical ride called the 'New Millennium Experience' informs and inspires all who visit, and there are brand new attractions in the recently restored School building, including a recreation of an 1820s classroom, an exhibition called Saving New Lanark, and the audio-visual show 'Annie McLeod' Story.
	www.visitscotland.com /aboutscotland/explorebymap/features/newlanark (247 words)

	Robert Owen, 1771-1858
		In 1800, there were four mills making New Lanark the largest cotton-spinning complex in Britain, and the population of the village (over 2000) was greater than that of Lanark itself.
		The primary contribution of Owen at new Lanark was in public buildings which emphasized his concern for the welfare of his workers, specifically, the New Institution for the Formation of Character (1816), the Infant School (1817) and the Store.
		At New Lanark, Owen involved himself in the public affairs of the day, the most important being education, factory reform, and the improvement of the Poor Laws.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/owen.html (1734 words)

	Robert Owen and New Lanark
		New Lanark had a population of 2,000 people, 500 of whom were young children from the poorhouses and charities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
		Under his new regime, conditions in the factory were clean and children and women worked relatively short hours: a 12 hour day including 1½ hours for meals.
		In 1816 he opened the school at New Lanark which took children from 3 to 10 years old, or to 13 if their parents could afford for the child not to work.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/peel/factmine/owennewl.htm (1272 words)

	New Lanark - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		New Lanark - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		New Lanark, industrial village near the town of Lanark in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, established in 1785 and designated a UNESCO World Heritage...
		New Lanark gained international fame when Owen's experiments in enhancing his workers' environment resulted in increased productivity and profit....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /New_Lanark.html (107 words)

	Education in Robert Owen's New Society: The New Lanark Institute and Schools
		Reinstated as director of New Lanark and supported in capital and ideals by his philanthropic sleeping partners, who were safely located far away in London and thus unlikely to interfere much in day-to-day management, he had at last been able to pursue his goals.
		In a lengthy 'Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark', mercifully punctuated by a musical recital, Robert Owen expounded his educational aims and explained to an audience of 1,200 villagers the main objects of the Institute.
		Includes 'New View' plus, for example, addresses to the inhabitants of New Lanark and to the working classes; pieces on manufacturing and the employment of children; and schemes fore the relief of the poor and the emancipation of mankind.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-owen.htm (4247 words)

	New Lanark & the Falls of Clyde*
		The beautifully preserved historic village of New Lanark was founded in 1785 as a cotton spinning settlement.
		Adjoining New Lanark is the Falls of Clyde Wildlife Reserve, which is a remnant ash and oak woodland set in the gorge of the River Clyde to the south of Lanark town.
		The New Lanark Conservation Trust run and organise events such as the annual science fair in the village where SWT is keen to participate and highlight the issues which it is involved in, such as wildlife protection.
	www.greentourism.org.uk /NewLanark.html (743 words)

	New Lanark - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		New Lanark is a village founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers.
		New Lanark is an hour’s train ride south of Glasgow and you can very conveniently buy a travel package at the central train station, including the train fare, the connecting bus and the entrance fee to the visitors centre at New Lanark.
		New Lanark can be summarised as an interesting site with a good piece of industrial as well as political history attached.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/newlanark.html (926 words)

	New Harmony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Born in England in 1771 as one of the younger sons in a large family, Owen was forced to conclude his formal education at the age of ten.
		At New Lanark, he developed a system of life for his workers that at once improved the conditions under which they lived and fixed his control over their lives.
		New Harmony currency was worth the amount of time that a worker had labored, and could be exchanged for commodities worth the equivalent amount of labor.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~hyper/HNS/Cities/newharmony.html (719 words)

	New Lanark - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		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.
		Criterion iv New Lanark saw the construction not only of well designed and equipped workers’ housing but also public buildings designed to improve their spiritual as well as their physical needs.
		Criterion vi The name of New Lanark is synonymous with that of Robert Owen and his social philosophy in matters such as progressive education, factory reform, humane working practices, international cooperation, and garden cities, which was to have a profound influence on social developments throughout the 19th century and beyond.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/429 (242 words)

	England - New Lanark
		New Lanark is a small village set in a beautiful Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen established a model industrial community in the early 19th century.
		New Lanark is located in Strathclyde in the southern part of Scotland, southwest of Edinburgh.
		By 1828 New Harmony had been reduced to a travesty of its utopian ideal, and Owen sold the land at a loss of four-fifths of his total fortune.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-EnglandNewLanark.htm (722 words)

	New Lanark Investigation
		New Lanark was the first village to have its own nursery school in the world.
		New Lanark is still a living community, and the village is in the care of an independent charity.
		Various mediums have visited New Lanark and have sensed many energies present in the village and the Hotel and from our second investigation I do feel that there are spirit energies left in the village but I also feel that they are very happy and they wish to remain that way.
	www.ghostclub.org.uk /newlanark2.htm (3926 words)

	Scottish boys clothes -- education at New Lanark school
		New Lanark was created when two Glasgow financiers (David Dale and Richard Arkwright) purchased land on the River Clyde.
		When New Lanark was established (1785), the labor force was primarily children, especially orphan children who were very inexpensive to obtain.
		I am not sure precisely when Owen took control of New Lanark and what provision was made for children and their education in the early years.
	histclo.com /schun/country/scot/is/alpha/n/iss-nl.html (4338 words)

	Scottish boys clothes -- New Lanark school school uniform
		Presumably at New Lanark it was a garmment worn by the older boys.
		This was part of the philosophy of the education at New Lanark - along with freedom to think and express themselves in the classroom - Owen wrote extensively on this.
		New Lanark is now a charitable trust operated as a museum.
	histclo.com /schun/country/scot/is/alpha/n/iss-nlsu.html (2041 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Spooky stories - Spirit replies with the ghosts of New Lanark
		Once facing demolition and collapse, the village of New Lanark is fully restored to a living, working community, where visitors are welcome to explore by day and stay at the New Lanark Mill Hotel by night.
		New Lanark is recognised as one of the most haunted.
		Many present-day guests to the village and New Lanark Mill Hotel have reported sightings, and employees have almost become immune to the regular "visits" from the long departed.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=623&id=2169922005 (1205 words)

	New Lanark
		Hugging the banks of the River Clyde and surrounded by lush greenery is the village of New Lanark, a charming huddle of Palladian tenements and warehouses.
		New Lanark grew up around the mills built by Richard Arkwright and David Dale between 1788 and 1826.
		However in 1974, a restoration programme began and New Lanark has become a thriving community again as a World Heritage Site tourist attraction.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/newlanarktown (198 words)

	Robert Owen (1816) An Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark
		I found, on such a patient consideration of the subject as its importance demanded, that to reiterate precept upon precept, however excellent in theory, while no decisive measures were adopted to place mankind under circumstances in which it might be possible to put those precepts in practice, was but a waste of time.
		As we proceed, instead of your feelings being roused to hate and to pursue them to punishment, you will be compelled to pity them; to commiserate their condition; nay, to love them, and to be convinced that to this day they have been treated unkindly, unjustly, and with the greatest cruelty.
		For it would be no mark of wisdom to desert an old house, whatever may be its imperfections, until a new one shall be ready to receive you, however superior to the old that new one may be when finished.
	www.infed.org /archives/e-texts/owen_new_lanark.htm (7809 words)

	Heaven on Earth . Leaders and Thinkers: Robert Owen \| PBS
		In 1799 Robert Owen purchased a cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland.
		He built new housing, created sick pay and established a school for his workers’ children at a time when most working class children received little or no education.
		The school at New Lanark is often cited as one of the first examples of universal education for young children, a precursor of today’s pre-schools and kindergartens.
	www.pbs.org /heavenonearth/leaders_thinkers.html (483 words)

	New Lanark travel guide - Wikitravel
		New Lanark is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Southern Scotland, south of Glasgow.
		The closest train station to New Lanark is in Lanark where there is a regular bus service to the village or you could walk by following signs from lanark town centre.
		New Lanark is the site of historic cotton mills and most of the buildings are still there and are listed.
	wikitravel.org /en/New_Lanark (350 words)

	Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - New Lanark
		It is perhaps surprising that a village of abandoned cotton mills and the homes of the former workers there should be a top tourist attraction, but New Lanark is certainly not in the mould of the "Dark Satanic Mills" of the Victorian age.
		For a start, they are in a deep wooded valley of the river Clyde and they were built at the end of the 18th century by a man who was as much a pioneer in social improvement as an industrialist.
		A new audio-visual "Millennium Experience" takes visitors on a journey through time in a Disneyworld type ride, and shows what life was like in the early days of the mills, using local children to tell the story.
	www.rampantscotland.com /visit/blvisitnewlanark.htm (475 words)

	Ghost Finders Scotland - Paranormal Investigations, New Lanark World Heritage Site, Glasgow, Ghost Investigation, ...
		New Lanark has been carefully restored as a living community which opens its doors to visitors.
		We have no doubt that New Lanark would be well worth returning to for a future investigation.
		New Lanark World Heritage Site is a great location that has had many reported ghost sightings and experiences.
	www.ghostfinders.co.uk /newlanark.html (1496 words)

	Robert Owen biography : New Lanark mills
		As he found these working conditions to be hard to cope with he asked his friends to look out for a new situation that would suit him and, as a result, found employment in a drapery in Manchester.
		In 1799 Robert Owen, at the age of twenty-seven, finalised the purchase of the Dale factory holdings in New Lanark, Scotland, and married Anne Caroline Dale soon thereafter.
		An "Institute for the Formation of Character" was established at New Lanark that included opportunities for nursery, infant, and adult, education as well as community rooms and public halls.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/robert_owen.html (1779 words)

	New Lanark World Heritage Site on AboutBritain.com
		By Car: New Lanark is 1 mile south of Lanark and less than an hour from Glasgow (M74/A72) and Edinburgh (A70).
		The Royal Borough of Lanark Museum, situated near the centre of this busy market town, was established in 1990 and houses a collection of items which are used to illustrate the ancient and varied history of the town.
		The Loch Lomond Waterfront lodges are a brand new but intimate 5 star development of self-catering accommodation in one of the most beautiful and sought after locations in the West of Scotland.
	www.aboutbritain.com /NewLanarkWorldHeritageSite.htm (595 words)

	New Lanark Hostel YHA - New Lanark, Scotland - Hostel Review
		This YHA hostel is a 200 year old millworker's tenement house in the New Lanark conservation area -- originally established by Robert Owen in 1816.
		Robert Owen was one of the first utopian socialists and at New Lanark he put his ideas into action by providing his millworkers with better working conditions and housing.
		The New Millennium Experience, Robert Owen's School, Village Store, Millworkers House and Robert Owen's House can all be visited in a half a day on the New Lanark Passport (£5.95).
	www.hostelz.com /hostel/33843-New-Lanark-Hostel-YHA (584 words)

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