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Garnkirk, a station, a seat of fireclay manufacture, and an estate near the southern border of Cadder parish, Lanarkshire. The station, on the Glasgow and Garnkirk section (1831) of the Caledonian railway, is 5¾ miles ENE of Buchanan Street station in Glasgow, and 4 WNW of Coatbridge. The fireclay works, in the near vicinity of the station, comprise large buildings, and produce vases, flower-pots, cans, crucibles, water-pipes, and other articles of remarkable elegance and durability. The Garnkirk fireclay, occurring in beds from 4 to 19 feet thick, and equal if not superior to Stourbridge clay, resembles light-coloured sandstone in tint, and withstands a much stronger beat than any other fireclay known in Scotland. Its composition is 53.4 per cent. of silica, 43.6 of alumina, 0.6 of lime, 1.8 of peroxide of iron, and 0.6 of protoxide of manganese; while that of Stourbridge clay is 63.30 of silica, 23.30 of alumina, 0.73 of lime, 1.80 of oxide of iron, and 10.30 of water. Garnkirk House, ¾ mile NNW of the station, is the property of Alex. Sprot, Esq. (b. 1853; suc. 1870), who holds 1792 acres in the shire, valued at £4063 per annum, including £1043 for minerals. Pop. of Garnkirk, Crow Row, and Heathfield, (1861) 554, (1871) 656, (1881) 782.—Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a station" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Lanarkshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Garnkirk |
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