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Uddingston is home to Tunnock's confectionery factory, famed for its caramel wafers and tea cakes. The factory (which also operates a small tea room on the Main Street) contributes much to the village's economy, as does the industrial estate and retail park located on Bellshill Road; this is named Bothwell Park but is located within Uddingston. [5]
Uddingston and Bellshill is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election.
Tannochside Water Tower on Aitkenhead Road. Tannochside is a settlement eight miles (thirteen kilometres) southeast of Glasgow, Scotland.Although historically considered part of Uddingston, it lies within a separate local authority area: Tannochside is contained within the boundaries of North Lanarkshire council (situated between the Birkenshaw and Viewpark neighbourhoods in the Thorniewood ...
Articles relating to the small towns of Uddingston and Bothwell which are located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.The two localities share many amenities and share a parcel of land separated from other areas by the River Clyde to the south and west, and the M74 motorway to the north and east.
Viewpark takes its name from a rural estate of that name, [3] [4] located just off New Edinburgh Road (today part of the A721, which dates from the early 19th century and is thus 'new' only by comparison to Old Edinburgh Road which runs parallel further north), near to which was the Viewpark Colliery, one of several mines dug in the area between Uddingston, Bellshill and the North Calder Water ...
The first Uddingston station, on the east side of the Glasgow Road bridge, [2] was opened by the Clydesdale Junction Railway on 1 June 1849. [1] In 1878, it was replaced by the second one immediately west of the bridge. The station was renamed Uddingston Central (1952–1962) to avoid confusion with the nearby Uddingston (NB) renamed Uddingston ...
Bothwell (Scottish Gaelic: Both Chluaidh) is a conservation village in the South Lanarkshire council area of Scotland and part of the Greater Glasgow area. It lies on the north bank of the River Clyde, adjacent to Uddingston and Hamilton, 9 miles (14 km) east-south-east of Glasgow city centre.
Cassells says the village was a centre of weaving in the 18th century where "over 40 looms" were in production on The Loan, creating a coarse linen called "Duddingston hardings". [3] Duddingston Loch has been used for ice-skating and curling, even boasting a curling house, for several centuries. In the 17th and 18th century the village was ...
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