COATBRIDGE, municipal burgh, having the privileges of a royal burgh, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Pop. 43,056. It is situated on the Monkland canal, 8 m. E. of Glasgow, with stations on the L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. Until about 1825 it was only a village, but since then coal and iron mining have been developed, and it is now a centre of the iron trade of Scotland. Its prosperity was largely due to the ironmaster James Baird (q.v.). The indus tries of Coatbridge produce malleable iron and steel boilers, tubes, wire, tinplates and railway wagons, tiles, fire-bricks and fire-clay goods. The town, which became a municipal burgh in 1885, forms with Airdrie one of the parliamentary divisions of Lanarkshire. About 4 m. west by south lies the coalmining town of Baillieston.