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  1. Formerly county town of Lanarkshire,
  2. Scotland; now capital of Clydesdale district,
  3. Strathclyde region; population (1981) 9,800.
  4. William Wallace once lived here, and later
  5. returned to burn the town and kill the
  6. English sheriff. New Lanark to the S, founded
  7. in 1785 by Robert Owen, was a socialist
  8. `ideal village' experiment.
  9.