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From: "John Duncan" <>
Subject: [LKS] LARKHALL & DALSERF IN 1882.
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:39:45 +1100

LARKHALL: town and quoad sacra parish in middle ward of Lanarkshire.
The town stands AVON River, three & one-half south-east of HAMILTON.
Dates mostly from about 1776; is rather an assemblage of villages than strictly a town; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Lanarkshire, a railway station,
a banking office, Established church, Free Church, United Presbyterian, Evangelical Union, and R.C. churches, and 2 new public schools with accommodation for 700 scholars.
Population of the town 6503, of the quoad sacra parish 7063.

DALSERF: village and parish in middle ward of Lanarkshire.
The village stands on the River Clyde, 7 miles south-east of HAMILTON, is now very small, but was once much larger, and has a parochial church with 500 sittings, and a public school with about 339 scholars.
The parish contains also the post town of LARKHALL, and the villages of MILLHEUGH and ROSEBANK.
Its length is six and one half miles; its greatest breadth four and one-half miles; its area 6956 acres.
Population quoad civilia 9378. quoad sacra 2675.

The surface rises somewhat abruptly from the River Clyde on the one side, and the River Avon on the other, and forms between them a sort of plateau of maximum height of about 400 feet.
Coal abounds, and is largely worked.

DALSERF HOUSE, MACHAN, BROOMHILL, MILLHEUGH, and MILLBURN are the chief residences.
The parish was anciently called MACHANSHIRE, belonged to the COMYNS, went to the royal BRUCES, passed to an ancestor of the duke of HAMILTON, and was divided among junior branches of the HAMILTON family.

Established, Free, United Presbyterian, Evangelical Union, and Roman Catholic churches are at LARKHALL.
There are 2 schools for 501 scholars, and one of them for 300 is new.

John Duncan, Melbourne, Australia.

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