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.

[3] In his teens the labour activist Keir Hardie worked as a pony driver and then as a Hewer here.