Welcome to North Lanarkshire Council’s Resilience Toolkit. [4] The population of North Lanarkshire grew quickly during the Industrial Revolution. The council is made up of 21 wards,[11] as follows: As of 2020, the council composition is:[12], Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, Category:North Lanarkshire Council elections, "Joint Working Group Report: Planning and Development", "North Lanarkshire State of the Environment Report", "2017 Wards: Boundaries, population and household numbers", Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Lanarkshire&oldid=983584481, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text, Pages using infobox settlement with no map, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 02:15. A growing number … The discovery of coal and iron ore deposits in the 19th century, as well as the building of the Glasgow to Edinburgh railway, transformed the region. It lies on the Scotland's north–south watershed with the River Clyde flowing through the west of the county on its way to the Irish Sea, and the River Almond in the east emptying into the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh. //-->, //