NOTOC Lanark was originally a place name of Scottish origin, likely from the Cumbric "Lanerc" meaning "clear space, glade". It appears in multiple communities: Scotland Lanark - The former county town of Lanarkshire, in Clydesdale. New Lanark - Mill village near Lanark, the "Social Utopian" project of Robert Owen, and now a . Canada Lanark, Nova Scotia, in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia Lanark, Ontario - a village in Lanark County Lanark County, Ontario - southwest of Ottawa; see Perth (county seat), Smiths Falls, Carleton Place Lanark Highlands, Ontario United States of America Lanark, Illinois