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Ravenscraig
Village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Ravenscraig (disambiguation).
Ravenscraig is a town and historic village, located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, 2 miles (3 kilometres) east of Motherwell. Ravenscraig was formerly the site of Ravenscraig steelworks; once the largest hot strip steel mill in western Europe, the steelworks closed in 1992, and is now almost totally demolished.
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![]() Ravenscraig Sports Facility, 2016. | |
Location within North Lanarkshire | |
OS grid reference | NS756563 |
• Edinburgh | 41 mi (66 km) |
• London | 393 mi (632 km) |
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Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MOTHERWELL |
Postcode district | ML1 |
Dialling code | 01698 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
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55.792017°N 3.967524°W / 55.792017; -3.967524 |
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After over two decades of lying derelict, the empty land was redeveloped in the 2010s, with new houses and services being built on a large scale. The main contributors to this project were Wilson Bowden Developments Ltd, Scottish Enterprise and Tata Steel Europe.[1]