| Official Name: | Quarter |
| Static Image: | Quarter Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 98794.jpg |
| Population Ref: | |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Unitary Scotland: | South Lanarkshire |
| Lieutenancy Scotland: | Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates: | 55.7383°N -4.0311°W |
| Os Grid Reference: | NS724513 |
| Postcode District: | ML3 |
| Postcode Area: | ML |
| Post Town: | HAMILTON |
| Constituency Westminster: | Lanark and Hamilton East |
| Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse |
Quarter is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the hill above the Clyde Valley.
Francis Groome described the village in 1884 thus:
"Quarter Ironworks and Darngaber, a conjoint village in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire, 3 miles [5 km] S of Hamilton town and mile [1 km] ENE of Quarter Road station on the Strathaven branch of the Caledonian railway. It has a post office (Quarter) under Hamilton, an Established chapel of ease, a public school, and iron-works with five blast furnaces. The chapel of ease is an Early Decorated edifice of 1884, containing 430 sittings. Pop. (1871) 544, (1881) 886.—Ord. Sur., sh. 23, 1865."[1]
The coal mine at Quarter belonged to the Duke of Hamilton. On 16 March 1841 there was a fatal accident arising because of an underground explosion. The seven workers (one a boy) underground at the time died instantaneously. Four other workers died while trying to rescue them.[2] In his teens the labour activist Keir Hardie worked as a pony driver and then as a Hewer here.[3]
The Quarter Ironworks were established in 1865 and remained open until 1885. In 1880 they had five blast furnaces.[4]