Kelvinhead is a small hamlet in the vicinity of the village of
Banton in
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...
. Located close to the source of the
River Kelvin
The River Kelvin (Scottish Gaelic: ''Abhainn Cheilbhinn'') is a tributary of the River Clyde in northern and northeastern Glasgow, Scotland. It rises on the moor south east of the village of Banton, east of Kilsyth. At almost long, it init ...
, it is little more than a collection of a few houses along the
A803 road
The A803 is a road in central Scotland. It runs from Glasgow to Champany Corner, due north-east of Linlithgow).
Route
Beginning at Townhead in central Glasgow as part of a feeder system for the M8 motorway, forming part of the interchange at ...
between
Kilsyth and
Banknock
Banknock ( gd, Baile nan Cnoc) is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is west-southwest of Falkirk, east-northeast of Kilsyth and north-northeast of Cumbernauld.
Banknock is located on the Bonny Water, ...
.
Kelvinhead is reputedly the site where the first crop of
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
es was grown in Scotland.
Kelvinhead is uniquely situated providing access to the Core Footpath Network in the Kelvin Valley. The Forth and Clyde canal is easily accessible which provides walking, cycling and angling. To the north there is a path to
Banton Loch and the
Kilsyth Hills.
References
Hamlets in Scotland
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