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New Stevenston is a small village situated between Motherwell and Bellshill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. They also have a local amateur Sunday league football team. They play in the Carluke and district league and won the 2015 divisional league trophy by beating local league rivals Forgewood by 4–5 after penalties.It first formed as part of the parish of Holytown when substantial coal workings were being exploited during the 19th Century. The village prospered and so when the Church of Scotland suffered Disruption in 1843 the new Free Church was constructed in New Stevenston or Wrangholm to serve the mining community. With the decline of coal mining, and the rise of the steel and heavy engineering industries the bulk of the population were employed until the serious industrial decline of the late 20th Century, culminating in the closure of the Ravenscraig steelworks. Employment has shifted towards more diverse occupations and housing development has continued. There has been significant redevelopment since the late 1960s when the bulk of the late 19th century tenement flats were demolished. Ethnic and cultural diversity has broadened and there is now a purpose-built mosque on the site of the former apprentices' training school of the old Stewart's and Lloyd's tube works. The coal mining past is still significant; the area has suffered widespread undermining, which was a serious limit to new construction until relatively recently. The local church has cracked walls, garden depressions and tie bars as evidence for this.