Faskine was one of several small villages in the parish of Old Monkland, that at the end of the 18th.century, with the opening of the Monkland Canal and the resulting increase in the demand for coal began to increase in population. People from all over Scotland, and to a lesser extent Ireland, migrated to the area to provide the workforce for this increase in coal production. In 1830 this increase in migration increased dramatically with the development of iron production. The final result was the creation of the town of Coatbridge from what had been at the beginning of the cenrury small villages with small scale coalming. Faskine lies within the boundaries of Coatbridge. Peter Paterson Surrey U.K.