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Kirkhill, South Lanarkshire
Kirkhill is a district of the town of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. History Kirkhill is the one of the oldest parts of Cambuslang, growing up around the church after which the area is named (see History of Cambuslang).Local and family history: Cambuslang and King Arthur Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow (page 501), Elizabeth Williamson, Anne R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherglen And Hamilton West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rutherglen and Hamilton West is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was created for the 2005 general election. It covers almost all of the former constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of the former constituency of Hamilton South, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The current MP is Margaret Ferrier, an independent, who won the seat at the 2019 snap general election. She had previously held the seat from 2015 to 2017. Ferrier was previously a Scottish National Party MP until the whip was withdrawn on 1 October 2020 after an incident relating to a breach of the COVID-19 pandemic regulations. Boundaries The Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency covers part of the South Lanarkshire council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow and Lanark and Hamilton East c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canmore (database)
Canmore is an online database of information on over 320,000 archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings in Scotland. It was begun by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland has maintained it since 2015. The Canmore database is part of the National Record of the Historic Environment (or NRHE), formerly the National Monuments Record of Scotland (or NMRS) and contains around 1.3 million catalogue entries. It includes marine monuments and designated official wreck sites (those that fall under the Protection of Wrecks Act The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 (c. 33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or ...), such as the wreck of . References External links * Archaeology of Scotland Architecture in Scotland Canmore Archives in Scotland Databas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkhill Golf Club
Kirkhill Golf Club is a parkland golf course located in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The club was founded in 1910 Murray Spooner, Daily Record, 7 August 2016 from some former members of Cambuslang Golf Club. It is situated close to the residential neighbourhood, and is adjacent to the between the southern edge of the |
2017 Scottish Local Elections
The 2017 Scottish local elections were held on Thursday 4 May, in all 32 local authorities. The SNP retained its position as the largest party in terms of votes and councillors, despite suffering minor losses. The Conservatives made gains and displaced Labour as the second largest party, while the Liberal Democrats suffered a net loss of councillors despite increasing their share of the vote. Minor parties and independents polled well; and independent councillors retained majority control over the three island councils. For the first time since the local government reforms in 1995, all mainland councils fell under no overall control. Background The previous election was in 2012. Normally these elections take place every four years, but this election was postponed for a year in order to avoid conflicting with the 2016 Scottish Parliament election. Once again the local elections, held under the Single Transferable Vote system, were counted electronically, using the same system u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambuslang West (ward)
Cambuslang West is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 14,096 people. The ward has politically been split between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party (SNP) with each party returning one councillor at half of the elections. Boundaries The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Cambuslang West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained part of the former Cairns ward, roughly half of the former Cathkin/Springhall and Cambuslang Central wards as well as all of the former Eastfield and Kirkhill/Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambuslang East (ward)
Cambuslang West is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 17,418 people. The ward was previously a Labour stronghold with the party holding at least two of the three seats between 2007 and 2017. However, it has since swung towards the Scottish National Party (SNP) with the party holding two of the three seats since 2017. Boundaries The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Cambuslang East was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Cairns ward, roughly half of the former Cambuslang Central ward as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrigans Bar, Cambuslang - Geograph
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Carrigans may refer to one of these places in Ulster in the island of Ireland: * Carrigans, County Armagh, a townland; see List of townlands of County Armagh *Carrigans, County Donegal, a village *The name of two townlands in County Donegal; see List of townlands of County Donegal * Carrigans, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh. * Carrigans, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone. See also *Carrigans railway station Carrigans railway station served Carrigans, County Donegal, in Ulster, Ireland. The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (L&ER) was an Irish gauge () railway in Ireland. Construction and opening T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathkin High School
Cathkin High School is a state secondary school in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire (Greater Glasgow), Scotland. History The original school was built at a cost of £1.25million and opened in November 1970 (official duties being performed by politician Peggy Herbison), around the same time as the neighbouring housing scheme at Whitlawburn was completed. It replaced Gateside School in central Cambuslang (the campus of which was thereafter occupied by Trinity High School School History Trinity High School (archive version, 2009) then by , before being demolished in 2008). In 2008, the school relocated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holmhills Community Park Cambuslang
Holmhills Community Park is a recreational area in the southern part of Cambuslang, a town on the south-eastern fringes of the City of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The area is bordered to the east by Greenlees Road (opposite the entrance to Cambuslang Park), to the south by Western Road, to the west by Langlea Road (at Cathkin High School), and to the north by Grenville Drive. Originally the ground was owned by the Lahore family of Whitlawburn Farm in the western part and the other families who owned Holmhills Farm and Greenlees Farm to the east. These lands were used for grazing Guernsey cattle and growing barley until the mid-1960s when John Lahore sold his property to the then Lanark County Council (now South Lanarkshire Council) and moved to Montrose. Shortly afterwards the remaining two farmers also sold up so that, by the end of the 1960s, all the lands comprising the current park were owned by the local authority - most of the territory was converted into housing at Whitlawbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambuslang RFC
Cambuslang RFC is a rugby union side based in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The team was established in 1903. They play their home games at Coats Park. They currently play in . History On 7 August 1903, a meeting was held under the Presidency of the late H. Shepherd, Esq., at which it was decided to form a Rugby Club at Cambuslang. The Club commenced playing at Greenlees Farm, and under the guidance of Mr. Shepherd and the benevolent auspices of the late Dr. T. D. Laird, its Honorary President, went from strength to strength until the beginning of the 1914–1918 War. During this period, the Club progressed to the extent of running two teams and of raising funds and building a small Clubhouse. During the same period, there was in existence, the Cambuslang Cricket Club, which was then under the wing of the late J. S. Paul, esq. For some time the two Clubs worked together, but owing to the difficulty of finding a field which the farmer did not require in the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkhill Railway Station
, symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Kirkhill railway station, Lanarkshire (geograph 3916753).jpg , borough = Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire , country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name = Grid reference , grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 2 , code = KKH , transit_authority = SPT , original = Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway , pregroup = Caledonian Railway , postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway , years = 1 August 1904 , events = OpenedButt (1995), page 136 , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Kirkhill railway station is a railway station serving the Kirkhill area of the town of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherglen (Scottish Parliament Constituency)
Rutherglen is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood) covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, it is one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. Originally called Glasgow Rutherglen, the boundaries were redrawn and the new constituency renamed simply ''Rutherglen'' for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. The seat has been held by Clare Haughey of the Scottish National Party since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election. Electoral region The other eight constituencies of the Glasgow region are Glasgow Anniesland, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Provan, Glasgow Shettleston and Glasgow Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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