Motherwell is a large town in south east of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire Council, which is one of Scotland's most populated local authority areas, and of Strathclyde Police "N" part, these organizations cover an overall population of 327,000 people.
The town was a burgh from 1865 until it merged with the burgh of Wishaw in 1920. Motherwell was noted as the steel production capital of Scotland, and is nicknamed Steelopolis, with its skyline dominated by the water tower and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steelworks which closed in 1992. The closure of Ravenscraig signaled the end of a large scale steel making in Scotland. In the past decade, Motherwell has to an extent recovered from the high unemployment and economic decline brought about by the collapse of the heavy industry. A number of call centers and business parks such as Strathclyde Business Park have been set up in the region.
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