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Fernhill, South Lanarkshire
Fernhill is a residential neighbourhood in the Scottish town of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire; it is situated south of the River Clyde and borders the Rutherglen neighbourhoods of Burnside, South Lanarkshire, High Burnside to the north and Rutherglen#Cathkin, Cathkin to the east, the Glasgow district of Castlemilk to the west, and the open lands of Fernbrae Meadows (formerly Blairbeth Golf Club which closed in 2015) to the south. Its location on a steep incline which is part of the Cathkin Braes range of hills offers panoramic views over the south and eastern parts of Greater Glasgow. Fernhill is within the Rutherglen South (ward), Rutherglen South Wards of the United Kingdom, ward of South Lanarkshire Council which is also the extent of the neighbourhood community policing zone; local councillors include the experienced politician Robert Brown (Scottish politician), Robert Brown. History Until about 1950, the territory of Fernhill was open fields to the south of Rutherglen o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherglen (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rutherglen is a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat first existed between 1918 and 2005 (known latterly as Glasgow Rutherglen) and was re-established under the Scottish Westminster constituencies#Recommended changes, final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Scotland as part of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. In the intervening period, the seat was largely replaced by Rutherglen and Hamilton West (UK Parliament constituency), Rutherglen and Hamilton West. The seat has been held since 2024 by Michael Shanks (politician), Michael Shanks of Scottish Labour. Shanks had been the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West since a 2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, by-election victory in 2023. Boundaries 1918–1949: "The burgh of Rutherglen and the part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Castle (geograph 3721172)
King of the Castle may refer to: * ''King of the Castle'' (TV series), a British children's television serial * ''King of the Castle'' (1926 film), a British silent drama film * ''King of the Castle'' (1936 film), a British comedy film * King of the Hill (game), a children's game, also known as King of the Castle {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Hunter
Kenny Hunter (born 1962) is a Scottish sculptor. He lives and works in Edinburgh. Between 2015 and 2018, he was programme director of sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art where he now continues to work part-time as a lecturer in Fine Art, Sculpture. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Hunter graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1987 and thereafter studied classical sculpture at the British School at Athens. Hunter makes monumental civic sculpture, he also makes gallery-based work and has exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (including a bust of Jimmy Reid), the Centre for Contemporary Arts, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Tramway (arts centre), Tramway Glasgow, Galerie Scheffel in Germany and at Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, among others in the UK and Internationally. According to his profile at ''GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, GENERATION'', ''"Kenny Hunter makes elegant sculptures in many materials including wood, plastic, iron and bron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Droving
Droving is the practice of walking livestock over long distances. It is a type of herding, often associated with cattle, in which case it is a cattle drive (particularly in the US). Droving stock to market—usually on foot and often with the aid of dogs—has a very long history. An owner might entrust an agent to deliver stock to market and bring back the proceeds. There has been droving since people in cities found it necessary to source food from distant supplies. Description Droving is the practice of moving livestock herds over long distances by walking them " on the hoof", sometimes several hundred kilometers. It was carried out by shepherds. The earliest written evidence about shepherds and their dogs dates back to the 14th century. Thousands of cattle were moved along the roads of Europe and Great Britain, and later sheep, goats, pigs and even geese and turkeys. The journey from pasture to market, slaughterhouse, or buyer could take anywhere from a few weeks to a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangs In The United Kingdom
Gang-related organised crime in the United Kingdom is concentrated around the cities of London, Manchester and Liverpool and regionally across the West Midlands region, south coast and northern England, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency. With regard to street gangs the cities identified as having the most serious gang problems, which accounted for 65% of firearm homicides in England and Wales, were London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. Glasgow in Scotland also has a historical gang culture with the city having as many teenage gangs as London, which had six times the population, in 2008. In the early part of the 20th century, the cities of Leeds, Bristol, Bradford, and more prominently Keighley, and Nottingham all commanded headlines pertaining to street gangs and suffered their share of high-profile firearms murders. Sheffield, which has a long history of gangs traced back to the 1920s in the book "The Sheffield Gang Wars", along with Leicester is one of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Kilbride
East Kilbride (; ), sometimes referred to as EK, is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. Historically a small village, it was designated Scotland's first "new town" on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a raised plateau to the south of the Cathkin Braes, about southeast of Glasgow and close to the boundary with East Renfrewshire. The town ends close to the White Cart Water to the west and is bounded by the Rotten Calder Water to the east. Immediately to the north of the modern town centre is The Village, the part of East Kilbride that existed before its post-war development into a New Town. East Kilbride is twinned with the town of Ballerup, in Denmark. History Prehistory The earliest-known evidence of occupation in the area dates as far back as the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, as archaeological investigation has demonstrated that burial cairns in the district began as ceremonial or ritual sites of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A749 Road
The A749 road in Scotland connects East Kilbride with Glasgow city centre via Rutherglen and Bridgeton, Glasgow, Bridgeton. Route East Kilbride The road starts off as a dual carriageway at a roundabout called "The Whirlies", with a junction for the A725 road (Great Britain), A725 road. Running north it quickly meets another roundabout for the ''A749 spur'' which connects onto the A725 (added in the 1990s to bypass the Whirlies where possible to ease congestion); another exit provides access to the former Rolls-Royce engineering works, which closed in 2010s and was converted mostly to housing to complement existing commercial and retail property. The road continues past a third roundabout with exits for the Stewartfield, East Kilbride, Stewartfield district (as of 2020, a proposal was in place to upgrade this to a dual carriageway for better links to the A726 road, A726 on the western side of the town), and for the Kingsgate Retail Park (Nerston). After a traffic light junction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bypass (road)
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce Traffic congestion, congestion in the built-up area, to improve road safety and as replacement for obsolete roads that are no longer in use as a result of devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions). A bypass specifically designated for trucks may be called a truck route. If there are no strong land use controls, buildings are often built in town along a bypass, converting it into an ordinary town road, and the bypass may eventually become as congested as the local streets it was intended to avoid. Many businesses are often built there for ease of access, while homes are often avoided for noise and pollution reasons. Bypass routes are often on new land where no road originally existed. This creates a conflict between those who support a bypass to reduce congestion in a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartment
An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement (Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are many names for these overall buildings (see below). The housing tenure of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale public housing, to owner occupancy within what is legally a Condominium (living space), condominium (strata title or commonhold) or leasehold, to tenants renting from a private landlord. Terminology The term ''apartment'' is favoured in North America (although in some Canadian cities, ''flat'' is used for a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor). In the UK and Australia, the term ''apartment'' is more usual in professional real estate and architectural circles where otherwise the term ''flat'' is u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housing Estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision (land), subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, they often consist of single-family detached home, single family detached, semi-detached ("duplex") or Terraced house, terraced homes, with separate ownership of each dwelling unit. Building density depends on local planning norms. In major Asian cities, such as Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo, an estate may range from detached houses to high-density tower blocks with or without commercial facilities; in Europe and America, these may take the form of town housing, high-rise housing projects, or the older-style rows of terraced houses associated with the Industrial Revolution, detached or semi-detached houses with small plots o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
