Quarter is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the hill above the Clyde Valley.
Francis Groome described the village in 1884 thus:
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. In his teens the labour activist Keir Hardie worked as a pony driver and then as a hewer here.
The Quarter Ironworks were established in 1865 and remained open until 1885. In 1880 they had five blast furnaces.