Ravenscraig
Ravenscraig is a village and new town, located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, around 1+1⁄2 miles (2.5 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.
Ravenscraig
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Ravenscraig Sports Facility, 2016. | |
Ravenscraig Location within North Lanarkshire | |
| OS grid reference | NS756563 |
| • Edinburgh | 41 mi (66 km) |
| • London | 393 mi (632 km) |
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| 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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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.
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