Ravenscraig

Ravenscraig
Recent sculpture by Ravenscraig Sports Facility (geograph 4810818
Ravenscraig Sports Facility, 2016.
Ravenscraig is located in North Lanarkshire
Ravenscraig
Ravenscraig
Location within North Lanarkshire
OS grid referenceNS756563
• Edinburgh41 mi (66 km)
• London393 mi (632 km)
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMOTHERWELL
Postcode districtML1
Dialling code01698
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament
Website[1]
List of places
UK
Scotland
55°47′31″N 3°58′03″W / 55.792017°N 3.967524°W / 55.792017; -3.967524

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.

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]

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