Easter programme at New Lanark to include egg hunt, bonnet parade, market and duck race

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New Lanark world heritage site is getting set for Easter with a busy activity programme including egg rolling, a bonnet parade, market and a duck race at the Falls of Clyde.The 18th-century Lanarkshire attraction, which is one of Scotland’s six Unesco sites, has a busy programme over the two weeks of the school holidays which includes the opening of its refurbished soft play facility.Festivities begin on Saturday and Easter Sunday, March 30 and 31, with a scavenger hunt to discover 3D-printed eggs along its scenic walkways – and where the lucky finder of a golden egg will win a toy and chocolate egg from Lanark men’s shed.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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