Hotels in Coatbridge

Coatbridge was once the furnace of Scotland, a town that grew rapidly in the nineteenth century on coal and ironworks and earned the nickname the Iron Burgh, drawing a large Irish immigrant population whose influence still shapes its identity.

That heritage is well told at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, built around old ironworks and a stretch of the Monkland Canal, and Drumpellier Country Park offers lochs and woodland walks on the town's western edge. This is a working post-industrial commuter town, not a holiday destination. Stay near the town centre and its railway stations for the quickest links into Glasgow and onto the motorway network.