Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Longriggend

Longriggend, a place in New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, 5 miles NE by E of Coatbridge and 2¾ SW of Slamannan. It has a post office under Airdrie, a railway station, and a handsome Roman Catholic chapel school (1879).—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 place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: New Monkland ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty
Place: Longriggend

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