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Silicon Glen is the nickname given to the high tech sector of Scotland, the name inspired by Silicon Valley in California. It is applied to the Central Belt triangle [ 1 ] between Dundee , Inverclyde and Edinburgh , which includes Fife , Glasgow and Stirling ; although electronics facilities outside this area may also be included in the term.
Silicon Forest (Newark, Nottinghamshire): Silicon Forest consists of various businesses from in and around the Newark and Sherwood area that specialise in technology and innovation. Silicon Glen (Central Belt, Scotland) Silicon Gorge (Bristol, England) Silicon Mall (London, England): the area between Pall Mall and Victoria in London
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
In total, the country has over 40 glens with rich history, with some of the glens in Scotland historically being ruled by warlike clans who defended the territory from invasion. The majority of the Scotland's glens are located in the Highland area of the country, with areas such as Glen Trool , Glencoe , "The Great Glen ", Glen Etive and Glen ...
Cleghorn is a village in Lanark in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. [1] Cleghorn Village is around 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (3.6 km) north-east of Lanark town, [2] and is a small close community with about 250–300 residents and under 50 houses. The village is in the catchment area of Lanark Grammar School.
Old section of A75 east of Carrutherstown, close to Braehill Oak Wood, in 2007. It is now a bypassed local road. The mostly single-carriageway road has been re-aligned, re-routed and bypasses most towns in recognition of the heavy freight traffic it carries between the A74(M)/M6 and the ferry ports for Northern Ireland at Cairnryan.
Glen Douglas (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Dùghlais) is a glen in the southwest Scottish Highlands. It is drained by the Douglas Water, which discharges at the village of Inverbeg at its eastern end into Loch Lomond. The glen is followed by a single-track road which links the A82 road alongside Loch Lomond with the A814 road beside Loch Long.
A number of other important companies followed, establishing Glenrothes as a major industrial hub in Scotland's Silicon Glen. [46] In the mid-1970s, the town also replaced Cupar as the HQ of Fife Regional Council, making it the administrative centre of Fife. [29] [47] [48] ADC electronics plant in 2005