Source: the venue’s website, checked on 01/11/2026.
On the banks of the Clyde, an hour from Glasgow, David Dale opened cotton mills in 1786 that his son-in-law Robert Owen turned into a model village. Facing demolition after the mills closed in 1968, the buildings were saved by a charity, and the first mill is now a hotel.
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In Owen’s time some 2,500 people lived here, around 500 of them children: in 1817 he opened Britain’s first infant school for them. The mills closed in 1968. The New Lanark Conservation Trust was founded in 1974 to stop the demolition; the derelict Mill No. 1 reopened as a hotel in 1998, and the village became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Thirty-eight rooms and suites in the mill, plus eight duplex cottages in the Waterhouses just behind it. Rooms in the hotel and the visitor centre host up to 180 delegates, with conference packages from ten people. Two trains an hour run from Glasgow Central to Lanark, 2.5 km from the village by bus or taxi.
Photo credits : Magnus Hagdorn (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) ; mrpbps (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) ; StaraBlazkova (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) ; marsupium photography (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) ; Alex Liivet (Wikimedia Commons, CC0)
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