The River Clyde and the M74 motorway (geograph 5716617) (cropped)

Daldowie_Crematorium,_Uddingston_-_geograph

The lands of Daldowie in

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, Scotland lie astride the

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on the south and the

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to the east (marking the boundary with

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), and stretch to the present area of

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in the north (on the opposite side of the

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, with both areas served by Junction 3A). Daldowie

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was constructed in 1952 by Lanarkshire County Council and opened in 1955, on the grounds of the historic Daldowie House - home of the Stewarts of Minto and

George Bogle of Daldowie George Bogle of Daldowie (1700–1784) was a Virginia merchant, a trader with the West Indies, and a considerable citizen of Glasgow, where he was one of the Tobacco Lords. As well as trading in tobacco he dealt in other Caribbean commodities, su ...

. His son, George Bogle the younger made an expedition to

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as the first British envoy to

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. An elegant house was built in the 1730s and extended in the 1830s by a local ironmaster, John Dixon; of which only the

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survived. It was one of a string of estates strung out along the

- from

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, through Westthorn and

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to Easterhill, which went from being country seats in the 18th century, through an exploitation of their iron and coal deposits in the 19th century, to the commercial and residential uses which predominate today; aside from the crematorium and its garden grounds, the area is now dominated by a waste water treatment works, including a waste-to-fuel facility which produces

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from the sewage solids.Newton residents work with firm to fight smell
Daily Record, 5 February 2020

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Photograph of Daldowie House in the 19th Century

Online remembrance at Daldowie Crematorium
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