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Waterside is a small village next to Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, on the eastern outskirts.
The first known settlement on the site of what is now Kirkintilloch was a Roman fort established in what is now the Peel Park area of the town. Dating from the mid-2nd century, the Antonine Wall, one of the northernmost frontiers in Roman Britannia was routed through Kirkintilloch; its course continues through the centre of the town to this day, although little trace can now be seen above ...
Combined with Kirkintilloch District 1968 on creation of Cumbernauld Burgh [13] N/A Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch Croy, Dullatur, Twechar and Waterside areas Created 1968: Most to Cumbernauld and Kilsyth; part to Strathkelvin (parts of Twechar and Waterside) Helensburgh Arrochar, Cardross, Craigendoran, Garelochhead, Rhu, Rosneath and Shandon areas
The Bothlin is without a doubt the Luggie's major contributing stream. Its source the Bishop loch was a third larger in area than it is today and this is a result of the Forth & Clyde Canal Company buying the water rights and using it as a storage reservoir to supply the canal at Kirkintilloch via the Bothlin.
The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway was an early mineral railway running from a colliery at Monklands to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch, Scotland.It was the first railway to use a rail ferry, the first public railway in Scotland, [1] and the first in Scotland to use locomotive power successfully, and it had a great influence on the successful development of the Lanarkshire iron ...
Kirkintilloch East and North and Twechar is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the East Dunbartonshire Council.It elects three Councillors. [2] The current entity was technically created in 2017 following a boundary review, but has largely the same boundaries as the 2007 Kirkintilloch East and Twechar ward, which as its name suggests encompassed the eastern parts of Kirkintilloch ...
Antonine Wall Old Auchinairn primary school Baldernock Parish Church Craigend Castle in Mugdock Country Park Huntershill Village, Crowhill Road pedestrian access Lennoxtown Dam The former Schaw Convalescent Home at Bearsden, now converted into apartments Antonine Wall Westerton Railway Station
Old Glasgow and Its Suburbs in Their Celtic Garb: Also, Parish of Baldernock, Kirkintilloch to Stirling, Robroyston by Neil Thomson (Aird & Coghill, 1907). The Story of Baldernock by Elizabeth Robertson and Willie Ure (East Dunbartonshire District Libraries, 1991). Baldernock – Profile of a Parish Baldernock Amenity Society, May 1974.