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Carfin
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Carfin (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Fionn, meaning the White Cairn) is a village in North Lanarkshire in the central lowlands of Scotland, situated to the north-east of Motherwell. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Holytown, Newarthill and New Stevenston which have a combined population of around 20,000 across the four localities.
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Place details
- Locality
- Carfin
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,510
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Carfin
- UK place.gaelic_name
- An Càrn Fionn
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS769581
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 1.54
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- North Lanarkshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Lanarkshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Uddingston and Bellshill
- UK place.post_town
- Motherwell
- UK place.postcode_area
- ML
- UK place.postcode_district
- ML1
- UK place.dial_code
- 01698
- UK place.static_image_name
- Bell Quadrant Shopping Centre.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Bell Quadrant Shopping Centre, Carfin
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Carfin
- Population
- 3190
- Area
- 4.42
- Image
- Bell Quadrant Shopping Centre.jpg
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Carfin (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Fionn, meaning the White Cairn) is a village in North Lanarkshire in the central lowlands of Scotland, situated to the north-east of Motherwell. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Holytown, Newarthill and New Stevenston which have a combined population of around 20,000 across the four localities.
==Local facilities== Carfin has strong Irish Catholic links, which are exemplified in Carfin Grotto a famous pilgrimage place, with extensive gardens and a visitors' centre with cafe. It was built in the early 1920s, when parish priest, Canon Thomas Nimmo Taylor engaged the unemployed miners of the village to build a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes, allowing people in Scotland to venerate the Blessed Virgin without having to travel to France or Ireland to do so. Carfin also gained national attention in 1924 when the local MP Hugh Ferguson used what was seen as an outdated anti-Catholic law to stop Carfin's Corpus Christi procession from using the public roads, becoming a trigger for the 1926 Catholic Relief Act which among other things legalised Catholic processions.
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