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East Kilbride East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...

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, Scotland.

Etymology

The name Nerston is originally a Scots corruption of Near-town.'Nair', 'Ner', 'Ners', and 'Naris' as appearing in earliest numerous charters and writs spelling the name, is given this overall definition the Dictionary of the Scots Language - http://www.dsl.ac.uk/

Facilities

Robert Wiseman Dairies

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- has been based in the village since 1959, housed in a former farmhouse and piggery, the original farm and dairy premises founded in 1947 at Murray Farm having been redeveloped by the East Kilbride Development Corporation.

Nerston Residential School

Nerston Residential School was established in 1940 by Glasgow Corporation as the Nerston Residential Child Guidance Clinic, using houses previously purchased by the Glasgow United Evangelist Association in 1898 for use of the Glasgow Fresh Air Fortnight Committee holiday camps for Glasgow children. The school eventually closed in 2010 as a result of a

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exercise, the remaining primary children being merged with pupils at Greenwood School and relocated to the former Hampden School premises in Glasgow. The abandoned school buildings were completely demolished in March 2014 to make way for a collection of nineteen 4- and 5-bedroom houses to be built on the site for Cala Homes. Building commenced late in the Summer of 2016 with expected completion early in 2017. J Sainsbury at Kingsgate Retail Park, East Kilbride - geograph

Kingsgate Retail Park

Immediately to the west of the present hamlet of Nerston, and upon the lands formerly known as West or Wester Nerston, is Kingsgate Retail Park, first opened in 1995. It grew in popularity when parking charges were introduced for car parks at the town centre. Its location on the

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(and bus route) from East Kilbride to

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also attracts customers from these areas as well as within the town, and is popular for East Kilbride-based

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returning by car from work in Glasgow who visit the shops on their way home. A second phase of development was undertaken some years after the initial project with additional retail space being constructed to the south of the existing site.

East Kilbride Golf Club

The East Kilbride Golf Club, founded in 1900, was relocated to Nerston in the late 1960s due to the ongoing expansion of the new town, having been originally located at the East Kilbride Village Show Park and later at Blacklaw where the course extended into Calderwood Estate.

Industrial estate

Nerston is also the name given to one of East Kilbride's three major industrial estates (the others being

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) although it is some way to the south of the original village. The area was the location of a large

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plant from the 1950s (employing 4,000 workers at its peak) until the 2010s, when the company relocated to more modern facilities in

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. In 2016, plans were approved to transform the site into a mixed residential and commercial development; one of the main developments by

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, was named ''

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Gardens'' with street names ( Avon Drive,

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Avenue, Griffon Crescent,

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Sports facility

A 21st century development between Nerston and the suburb of Stewartfield is the 90-acre sports complex ''Playsport'' which features a 9-hole golf course and

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and indoor

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and

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facilities.

References

{{authority control Areas of East Kilbride Villages in South Lanarkshire