Greengairs: Difference between revisions

'''Greengairs''' is a village in [[North Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch, 1892-1905|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=55.9136&lon=-3.9420&layers=168&b=1|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordinance Survey|accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> Lying {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} southeast of [[Cumbernauld]] and {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} north east of [[Airdrie, North Lanarkshire|Airdrie]], the village consists mainly of local authority housing. Its nineteenth-century origins are in [[coal mining]] and [[quarrying]]. Greengairs power station opened in 1996, and is powered by [[methane]] produced by biodegrading materials from a large [[landfill]] site developed since 1990 in former open cast workings situated to the south of the village.<ref name=gaz>{{cite web|title=Greengairs|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1448.html|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|accessdate=22 December 2012}}</ref>