Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in
North Lanarkshire
North Lanarkshire ( sco, North Lanrikshire; gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It als ...
in Scotland, southeast of
Glasgow city centre
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and west of
Edinburgh
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. Other nearby localities are
Motherwell to the south,
Hamilton to the southwest,
Viewpark
Viewpark is an area in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Situated immediately north-east of Uddingston (but on the other side of the M74 motorway), Viewpark is west of Bellshill. It has an estimated population of 13,916 in 2016, a figure which also ...
to the west,
Holytown to the east and
Coatbridge
Coatbridge ( sco, Cotbrig or Coatbrig, gd, Drochaid a' Chòta) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. Along with neighbouring town Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Airdrie, Coatbrid ...
to the north. The town of Bellshill itself (including the villages of Orbiston and
Mossend
Mossend is a small town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, located on the A775 road to the immediate east of its 'sister town' Bellshill, west of the villages of Holytown and New Stevenston, north of the larger town of Motherwell and south of th ...
) has a population of about 20,650. From 1996 to 2016, it was considered to be part of the
Greater Glasgow
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metropolitan area; since then it is counted as part of a continuous
suburban settlement anchored by Motherwell with a total
population
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of around 125,000.
History
![Blaeu - Atlas of Scotland 1654 - GLOTTIANA PRÆFECTVRA INFERIOR - Belmil](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Blaeu_-_Atlas_of_Scotland_1654_-_GLOTTIANA_PR%C3%86FECTVRA_INFERIOR_-_Belmil.png)
The earliest record of Bellshill's name is handwritten on a map by
Timothy Pont
Rev Timothy Pont (c. 1560–c.1627) was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an ...
dated 1596 although the letters are difficult to distinguish. It's possible it reads Belſsill with the first s being an old-fashioned
long s
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. The site is recorded as being east of "
Vdinſtoun" and north of "
Bothwel-hauch" (which confusingly is above "
Orbeſton" on Pont's map). The name can also been seen on another map, which was derived from Pont's work, made by the
Dutch
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cartographer Joan Blaeu
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In 1620, Blaeu became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635, they publish ...
where the place is called "Belmil". The village consisted of a row of quarry workers' houses owned by Mr. Bell, who owned a stone quarry to the south of Belmill. Charles Ross' map of 1773 has "Belsihill" marked north of Crosgates and Orbiston. About 1810, this new settlement took on the name Bellshill and continued to grow. It absorbed nearby villages such as Nesnas, Black Moss and Sykehead. Bellshill was on the road which linked Glasgow and Edinburgh.
According to the first
Statistical Account, in the late 1700s the parish of
Bothwell, which encompasses modern Bellshill, was a centre of
hand-loom
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weaving with 113 weavers recorded. Only 50 colliers were listed. A hundred or so years later, these occupations had changed places in degree of importance to the area economy. With the introduction of new machinery in the mid 19th century, many cottage weavers lost their livelihood. Demand for coal to feed British industry meant that by the 1870s, 20 deep pits were in operation in the area.
The first mine to open (and the last to close in 1953) was the Thankerton mine. Others followed swiftly and rapidly increased the size of the town, even attracting a steady stream of immigrants from abroad, particularly Ireland and
Lithuania,
[Lithuanian miners in Scotland: migration and misconceptions]
Prof Marjory Harper (University of Aberdeen
, mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
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), Our Migration Story so much so that the town is sometimes referred to as 'Little Lithuania' (or historically 'Little Poland', as contemporary evidence shows locals made little effort to distinguish the incomers' backgrounds).
[The When, How, and Why of the Lithuanians in Scotland]
John Millar, Draugas News, 15 September 2006[Migration: Lithuania to North Lanarkshire]
CultureNL Factors adversely affecting integration for the first generation of these 'new Scots' included a language barrier, minority religion (most were Catholic) and hostility based on suspicion of taking jobs, undercutting wages and breaking strikes
[ – therefore the Lithuanians in Bellshill and elsewhere tended to identify more closely with the Irish communities of each town who had similar issues.][Every footballer has a story, especially if he played for Celtic]
Michael Beattie, Celtic Quick News, 11 March 2017 The rise in the migrant population (though severely impacted by the political landscapes of First World War
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and subsequent Russian Revolution which adversely affected the status of Lithuanians both in their homeland and in Britain)[NQ Higher Scottish History Difficulties faced by Lithuanian immigrants]
Education Scotland led to the opening of The Scottish Lithuanian Recreation and Social Club on Calder Road in the Mossend area,[ but much of the culture has faded over the decades, with younger generations sometimes unaware of their family's history due to a desire to assimilate into Scottish life and changes to distinctive surnames (either voluntarily or by obligation).][ Among the most famous of the descendants of this community was footballer ]Billy McNeill
William McNeill (2 March 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a Scottish football player and manager. He had a long association with Celtic, spanning more than sixty years as a player, manager and club ambassador. McNeill captained Celtic's 'Lisbon Lio ...
of Celtic and Scotland
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,[A national hero in Scotland… and Lithuania: Vilnius hails Celtic legend Billy McNeill’s family roots in Eastern Europe]
Stacey Mullen, Sunday Post, 5 May 2019 while other mid-20th century players of the same heritage included Andy Swallow
Andrew Swallow (11 August 1904 – 15 June 1969) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half or left half.
A member of North Lanarkshire's Lithuanian immigrant community and registered at birth with the surname Kregždė (anglicised ...
, Alex Millar
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, Matt Balunas and John Jack
John Jack (9 March 1932 – 22 October 1988) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic and Morton.
At Celtic, where he spent nine years, he was mainly a reserve behind Jim Mallan, Alec Boden and Jock Stein, with Bobby Evans also bein ...
.[
Iron and Steel production were also central to the development of the town. J. B. Neilson, developer of the revolutionary ']hot blast
Hot blast refers to the preheating of air blown into a blast furnace or other metallurgical process. As this considerably reduced the fuel consumed, hot blast was one of the most important technologies developed during the Industrial Revolution. ...
' process, opened the first iron works in the area (Mossend Iron Works) in 1839.
During the industrial boom there were a number of railway stations, including Mossend
Mossend is a small town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, located on the A775 road to the immediate east of its 'sister town' Bellshill, west of the villages of Holytown and New Stevenston, north of the larger town of Motherwell and south of th ...
, Fallside and Bell Cross. The settlement is now served solely by Bellshill railway station
Bellshill railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and served by Argyle Line and Shotts Line services. The station is adjacent to Bellshill Main Street, on Hamil ...
.
Maternity services were provided at Bellshill Maternity Hospital until the hospital was closed in 2001.
According to a report by the Halifax Building Society, in the first quarter of 2005 Bellshill was the UK's property hot spot with a 46% rise in house prices. This took the average property price to £105,698 (according to reports published April 2005).
In 2006, a new mosque
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was opened in the Mossend
Mossend is a small town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, located on the A775 road to the immediate east of its 'sister town' Bellshill, west of the villages of Holytown and New Stevenston, north of the larger town of Motherwell and south of th ...
area of Bellshill becoming one of the largest mosques in Scotland.
The streetscape project, a plan to regenerate and modernise the town centre, commenced Apr 2007 and was completed nearly three years later. The project, created a one way system on the main street with more space for pedestrians.
Education
Bellshill once had six primary schools including Belvidere Primary School. This was closed, however, in early June 2010 and has now been demolished. Holy Family Primary School was founded in 1868 and moved to new buildings in 1907 to accommodate an influx of Lithuanian, Polish and Irish Catholics seeking work in the area. Other primary schools include Sacred Heart Primary, Mossend Primary, Noble Primary, St. Gerard's Primary and Lawmuir Primary. There are two fairly large secondary schools, Bellshill Academy and Cardinal Newman High School.
Religion
Historically a Relief Church
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for 1000 people was built in Bellshill in 1763. Today several churches serve the town. St Andrews United Free Church of Scotland sits at Bellshill Cross whilst the Church of Scotland Parish Churches are at opposite ends of the Main Street with Bellshill Central Parish church opposite The Academy, and Bellshill West Parish Church next to the Sir Matt Busby Sports Centre. The town's Roman Catholic Parish Churches are St Gerard's, Senga Crescent R.A. ,Sacred Heart & Holy Family, Mossend.
Transport
Bellshill lies at an important point on Scotland's motorway network, situated around south of the M8 motorway between Glasgow
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and Edinburgh
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and their respective airports, and about the same distance north of the M74 motorway
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to and from England; the A725 road running directly to the west of the town links the two. The presence of this busy transport corridor and the availability of land following the decline of older heavy industry has led to the development of two large, modern industrial estate
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s (Bellshill and Righead) flanking the A725, while the Eurocentral
Eurocentral is one of the largest industrial estates in Scotland, situated on the edge of Holytown and Mossend, North Lanarkshire, just off the M8 motorway, about east of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. The nearest communities to th ...
industrial and distribution park is about northeast of the town, also featuring a railway freight terminal. Once heavily reliant on the railways relating to coal mining, Bellshill is still served by a rail junction to the east of Mossend connecting two of the main passenger routes covering southern, western and central Scotland Argyle Line
The Argyle Line is a suburban railway located in West Central Scotland. The line serves the commercial and shopping districts of Glasgow's central area, and connects towns from West Dunbartonshire to South Lanarkshire. Named for Glasgow's Argyl ...
–and Shotts Line
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Between Glasgow Central and , the line is shared with the West Coast Main Line (WCML), before branching off tow ...
– both of which stop at Bellshill railway station
Bellshill railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and served by Argyle Line and Shotts Line services. The station is adjacent to Bellshill Main Street, on Hamil ...
in the town centre.
Culture
There is a free public library within the Bellshill Cultural Centre. Various singers, such as Sheena Easton
Sheena Shirley Easton (; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress. Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme '' The Big Time: Pop Singer'', which recorded her attempts to ...
, and sportsmen like Sir Matt Busby and Billy McNeill
hailed from the town (a statue of McNeill at Bellshill Cross was unveiled in 2022).
Music
Bellshill is also known for its music, especially since the mid-1980s. Bands such as the Soup Dragons
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, BMX Bandits and Teenage Fanclub put Bellshill on the map as an indie rock hot-spot in Scotland. The scene - known as the ''Bellshill Sound'' or the ''Bellshill Beat'' - was celebrated by influential DJ John Peel in the Channel 4
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television serie
Sounds Of The Suburbs
Bellshill continues to produce well respected and influential independent pop music, with members of Mogwai
Mogwai () are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums). Mog ...
and De Rosa hailing from the town.
Sheena Easton
Sheena Shirley Easton (; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress. Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme '' The Big Time: Pop Singer'', which recorded her attempts to ...
was also from the town, and attended Bellshill Academy.
Sport
The town has a football team, Bellshill Athletic
Bellshill Athletic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the town of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. It plays in the .
History
The history of the club can be traced back as far as 1897 when Bellshill Athletic were founded as a Ju ...
, that plays in the Scottish Junior Football West Premier League
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. They play their home games at Rockburn park after moving away from Tollcross, Glasgow, after New Brandon Park was closed down to reduce costs.
Bellshill also has the Sir Matt Busby Sports Complex (Named after the late Manchester United legend who was born and brought up in the area) that opened in 1995. It has a 25m swimming pool, with two large spectator seating areas either side, a large hall and health suite. The complex also has a gym and a dance studio.
There is a golf course
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next to nearby Strathclyde Park which is within walking distance of parts of the town, particularly Orbiston. The Greenlink Cycle Path
The Greenlink Cycle Path is a cycle path in North Lanarkshire that is a direct route running from Strathclyde Country Park to Motherwell Town Centre. The path is 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) in length. The Greenlink project was established in 2005, a ...
also travels through the golf course and the Orbiston area of Bellshill, heading towards Forgewood
Forgewood is a suburb in the north-west of the town of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It consists mainly of housing and low-rise flats, with the majority of them now 'modernised'. Some of the older-looking flats have since been demol ...
.
Notable people from Bellshill
The following list refers to notable people who were born in Bellshill, although they did not necessarily reside there - the town was home to Lanarkshire's maternity hospital in the latter part of the 20th century.
*Jackie Bird
Jacqueline Bird (née Macpherson, born 31 July 1962) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster, best known as a former anchor of the BBC Scotland national news programme ''Reporting Scotland''.
Early life
Jacqueline Macpherson was born on 31 ...
, journalist and broadcaster
* Doug Cameron, Australian politician
* Gregory Clark, economist
* Thomas Clark, poet
*Robin Cook
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, politician
* James Dempsey, politician
* Henry Dyer, engineer
*Sheena Easton
Sheena Shirley Easton (; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress. Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme '' The Big Time: Pop Singer'', which recorded her attempts to ...
, vocalist
* Catherine Grubb, artist
* Charles Jeffrey, fashion designer
*Bryan Kirkwood
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, television producer
*Monica Lennon
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, politician
*Eric McCormack
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, writer
*John McCusker
John McCusker (born 15 May 1973) is a Scottish folk musician, record producer, and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and p ...
, musician
* Ethel MacDonald, anarchist
* Paul McGuigan, filmmaker
*David MacMillan
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, Nobel Prize winning chemist
* David Shaw Nicholls, architect and designer
* Sean O'Kane, actor and model
* John Reid, politician
*James Cleland Richardson
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, soldier – Victoria Cross recipient
* Natalie J Robb, actress
*Sharleen Spiteri
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, musician – lead vocalist of Texas
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* Harry Stanley, innocent man killed by police
Sportspeople
* Kenny Arthur, footballer
* Tom Birney, American football player
* Sir Matt Busby, Scotland international football player and manager
* Stuart Carswell, footballer
* William Chalmers, football player and manager
* Peter Cherrie, footballer
* Tom Cowan, footballer
*Mike Denness
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Scotland did not have a representative international team at the time of Denness' career, so he could only play ...
, international cricketer
* Alex Dickson, boxer
*Scott Fox
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, footballer
*Hughie Gallacher
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, Scotland international footballer
* Peter Grant, Scotland international footballer
* Scott Harrison, former world boxing champion
* Lee Hollis, footballer
* Jackie Hutton, football player and manager
* Brian Irvine, Scotland international footballer
* Peter Jack, cricketer
* Russell Jones, cricketer
* Brian Kerr, Scotland international footballer
* David Lilley, footballer
*Malky Mackay
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, Scotland international football player and manager
* Chris Maguire, Scotland international footballer
* Kevin McBride, footballer
*Brian McClair
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As a player, he was a forward from 1980 to 1998, notable for his near 11-year spell at Manchester United where he won 14 trophies includ ...
, Scotland international footballer
*Ally McCoist
Alistair Murdoch McCoist, (; born 24 September 1962) is a Scottish former footballer who has since worked as a manager and TV pundit.
McCoist began his playing career with Scottish club St Johnstone before moving to English side Sunderland in ...
, Scotland international football player and manager
* Lee McCulloch, footballer
* Chris McGroarty, footballer
*Tom McKean
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McK ...
, Olympic track athlete
*Billy McNeill
William McNeill (2 March 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a Scottish football player and manager. He had a long association with Celtic, spanning more than sixty years as a player, manager and club ambassador. McNeill captained Celtic's 'Lisbon Lio ...
, Scotland international football player and manager[
*]James McPake
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, football player and manager
* Hugh Murray, footballer
* Alex Neil, football player and manager
* Phil O'Donnell, Scotland international footballer
* Tommy O'Hara, United States international footballer
* Jim Paterson, footballer
*Anthony Ralston
Anthony Ralston (born 16 November 1998) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Scotland national football team.
Club career
Part of the youth system at Celtic since the age o ...
, footballer
* John Rankin, footballer
*Shaun Rooney
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, footballer
* Steven Smith, footballer
* John Stewart, footballer
*Andy Swallow
Andrew Swallow (11 August 1904 – 15 June 1969) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half or left half.
A member of North Lanarkshire's Lithuanian immigrant community and registered at birth with the surname Kregždė (anglicised ...
, footballer
* Bob Wilson, footballer
* Kenny Wright, footballer
*Kirsty Gilmour
Kirsty Gilmour (born 21 September 1993) is a Scottish badminton player who has represented both Scotland and Great Britain.
Career
Gilmour won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, losing out to Michelle Li of Canada in the fina ...
, badminton player
Bands from Bellshill
* BMX Bandits
* Teenage Fanclub
* The Soup Dragons
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* De Rosa
References
External links
2001 Settlement Population
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Towns in North Lanarkshire
Mining communities in Scotland