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Milngavie ( ; ) is a town in
East Dunbartonshire East Dunbartonshire (; , ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders Glasgow City Council Area to the south, North Lanarkshire to the east, Stirling (council area), Stirling to the north, and West Dunbartonshire to the west. East ...
, Scotland and a suburb of
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. It is on the
Allander Water The Allander Water () is a river in East Dunbartonshire and Stirling, Scotland, and one of the three main tributaries of the River Kelvin, the others being the Glazert Water and the Luggie Water. It flows through Milngavie. See also *List of p ...
, at the northwestern edge of
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, and about from
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. It neighbours
Bearsden Bearsden ( ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow, approximately from the Glasgow city centre, city centre. The Roman Empire, Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town, and the remains of ...
. Milngavie is a
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, with much of its working population travelling to Glasgow to work or study. The town is served by
Milngavie railway station Milngavie railway station serves the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow in Scotland. The station is sited from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill. The station is managed by ScotRail, who also operate all services at t ...
on the
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of the
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rail network, which links it to Central Glasgow. In 2018, the Scottish Government published statistics for the town showing that the population increased to 13,537 in 6,062 households. The town is also a popular retirement location, with a high number of elderly people living there. The ''Milngavie and Bearsden Herald'', owned by
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, is a weekly newspaper that covers local events from the schools, town halls, community and government in the area. The paper was established in 1901 and is printed every Wednesday, to be sold on Thursdays. The town is the start point of the
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which runs northwards for to the town of Fort William. A
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in the town centre marks the official starting point of the footpath.


History

Milngavie's name is of Gaelic origin, and may mean either "windmill" () or "windy hill" (). The town grew from a country village in the parish of
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to a minor industrial centre in the nineteenth century, with paper mills and bleach works on the Allander River to the north-west of the town centre. Some remnants of this industry remain today on the Cloberfield Industrial Estate. The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains. Stone-built villas and semi-detached houses were constructed for wealthy citizens to the east of the town centre and around Tannoch Loch when commuting to Glasgow was made possible by the opening of the railway which reached the town in 1863. After
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a local authority housing scheme was built to the west of the town centre, housing many people relocated from
Clydebank Clydebank () is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Bowling and Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Milton beyond) to the w ...
which had been badly bombed. The town grew with the addition of private speculative housing developments of bungalows and semi-detached homes at South Mains to the south of the town centre and around Clober, to the west, in the 1950s and 1960s. The town was historically served by routes 13 and 14 of the extensive Glasgow tramway system. Tramway services in Milngavie were withdrawn in 1956 and the entire system was dismantled by September 1962. The Fairways estate was built, starting in 1977 and continued into the 1980s. The town centre was redeveloped to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety. The central commercial streets were pedestrianised starting in 1974 and many buildings were replaced. A superstore was opened on the fringes of the town centre in the 1990s. In 2008, residents launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to bring the Olympic games to Milngavie in 2020. Today the town is primarily a dormitory town for the nearby city of
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.


Governance

Milngavie, originally in Stirlingshire, was in an area that became an
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of
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on the orders of King David II (1324–1371). In 1875, whilst remaining part of Dunbartonshire, it became a
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under the jurisdiction of the
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constabulary and retained burgh status for 100 years until 1975 when it was absorbed into the newly created
Strathclyde Region Strathclyde ( in Welsh language, Welsh; in Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic, meaning 'strath
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of the River Clyde') was one of nine former Local government in Scotland, local government Regions and districts of Scotland, regions of Scotland cre ...
. Milngavie is located to the north of the neighbouring town of
Bearsden Bearsden ( ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow, approximately from the Glasgow city centre, city centre. The Roman Empire, Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town, and the remains of ...
. Although the two are in close proximity, the social histories of these two towns differ significantly. Bearsden grew almost exclusively as a dormitory town of Glasgow for the wealthy and professional classes. In that sense both towns now fulfil a similar role. The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before
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reorganisation in the 1990s re-integrated them with the towns of
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and
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, to form the
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administrative area. In 2014, businesses in Milngavie voted in favour of becoming a Business Improvement District (BID) to work with
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and community groups to improve the town and commercial viability of the central pedestrianised business area.


Landmarks

Little remains of the pre-nineteenth century village other than the Corbie Ha' meeting hall, Cross Keys
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, although now renovated and renamed, and the Gavin's Mill
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on the
Allander Water The Allander Water () is a river in East Dunbartonshire and Stirling, Scotland, and one of the three main tributaries of the River Kelvin, the others being the Glazert Water and the Luggie Water. It flows through Milngavie. See also *List of p ...
along with Barloch House and Barloch Farm. There are a few good examples of nineteenth century stone villas along the Station Road as well as the well preserved nineteenth century railway station. Many interesting Victorian houses around the Tannoch Conservation Area show Scottish cottage,
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,
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and
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influences. The town centre and Strathblane Road have remaining Victorian shop/
tenement A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, E ...
buildings and a few
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influenced commercial buildings. Craigmillar Avenue and the area around Baldernock Road have some large Arts and Crafts and
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influenced houses. The bulk of the housing stock is twentieth century, showing Scottish
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influences such as
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ing or rough-casting, and, occasionally, more traditionally English elements like black and white timber paneled
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windows and gables. The public
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projects of the 1970s and 1980s are interesting for their attempts to use traditional local materials like grey rough-cast and slate plus interesting rounded walls and
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s. The most recent development is characterised by some interesting one-off conversions and extensions to Victorian properties; new housing by developers that often follows designs based on the brick architecture of the
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; and contemporary steel framed commercial and leisure buildings. The Milngavie reservoir is visited by tourists and walkers. The reservoir is made up of the Craigmaddie and Mugdock reservoirs and was opened in 1859 by
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. It is the main supplier of water to the city of
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and can hold up to of water. The war memorial is by
George Henry Paulin George Henry Paulin (14 August 1888–1962), often called Harry Paulin, or 'GHP' (his sculpting insignia) was a Scottish sculptor and artist of great note in the early 20th century. Life Born in 1888 in the manse at Muckhart, Clackmannansh ...
. The Auld Wives' Lifts, an interesting natural rock feature, is located on Craigmaddie Muir to the north east of Milngavie.


Education


Secondary schools

*
Douglas Academy Douglas Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive school, comprehensive Secondary education in Scotland, secondary school in the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. I ...
: A state-funded secondary school, which includes a Music School for gifted children who gain entry through audition and board in Glasgow's West End


Primary schools

State funded: * Clober Primary * Craigdhu Primary * Milngavie Primary Privately funded: * The Glasgow Academy Milngavie is a fee paying Nursery and Primary School that is part of
The Glasgow Academy The Glasgow Academy is a coeducational Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school for pupils aged 3–18 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2016, it had the third-best Higher level exam results in Scotland. Founded in 1845, it is the oldes ...
, whose senior school and other departments are located at Colebrooke Street in the
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.


Places of worship

* Allander Evangelical Church * Cairns Church of Scotland
Milngavie United Free Church of Scotland
* St. Andrew's Episcopal Church * St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church * St. Luke's Church of Scotland * St. Paul's Church of Scotland Originally Milngavie was in the Parish of New Kilpatrick, the church being that of New Kilpatrick in
Bearsden Bearsden ( ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow, approximately from the Glasgow city centre, city centre. The Roman Empire, Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town, and the remains of ...
, with no formal place of worship in the town until the eighteenth century. Milngavie now has three stone built churches dating from the early twentieth century within 500 m of each other. Until the 1970s these three were all Church of Scotland congregations (those of St.Paul's, Cairns, and St.Luke's) in consequence of the history of the
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(
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) which saw a multitude of factions and congregations organise, each with varying forms of worship and constitutional arrangements, and which subsequently re-integrated. St.Paul's was always in the fold of the Church of Scotland and is now the
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of Milngavie. It was originally housed in a simple grey stone church building above the Station Road beside the Milngavie Primary School before moving to a handsome red sandstone building on the
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Road in 1906. The original building is now apartments. From 1799 Cairns Church had been located in a building on Mugdock Road close to the 'preaching braes' on Barloch Moor where the congregation's first services had taken place. It moved to its present building on Buchanan Street in 1903 which displays elements of the
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of architecture and design. St.Luke's had been built as the Milngavie United Free Church. In the 1970s it was decided that the concentration of churches in one area should be reviewed and a new St. Lukes was built on the western side of the town to serve the residents of Clober. The
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bought the old St.Luke's Church and moved their congregation to the new premises from a church (also "St. Joseph's" - now no longer there) on Buchanan Street at Moor Road which was associated with the neighbouring Roman Catholic Convent of Ladywood which closed in the 1970s.


Sporting institutions

Rangers F.C. Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football. The club is often referred to as Glasgow Rangers, though this has never been i ...
has their professional training facility, The
Rangers Training Centre The Rangers Training Centre is the training ground of Rangers located in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was opened in 2001 and originally named Murray Park after the then Rangers owner David Murray. It is also often referred to a ...
, at Auchenhowie Road in the east of the town. It was officially opened on 4 July 2001 by then-manager Dick Advocaat and then-chairman David Murray, after whom it was originally named as Murray Park. The total cost of the complex was estimated at £14 million. Following improvements completed in 2019, the facility became the regular home venue for competitive matches played by Rangers' Women's team, Reserve team and Under 18's team as well as many younger age groups. On 2 August 2019 the new Academy Stand with an all-seated capacity of 226 was officially opened at The Rangers Training Centre before hosting a Reserve friendly against Chelsea finishing in a 1–1 draw. Milngavie is the base of
West of Scotland F.C. West of Scotland Football Club is a rugby union club based in Milngavie, Scotland. Founded in 1865, West of Scotland are one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world, and one of the founding members of the Scottish Rugby Union. West have enjoyed ...
, a rugby club, which dates from 1865 and is one of the founder members of the SRU. They were one of the first open rugby clubs in Scotland, i.e. not affiliated to any school. Due to the town's suburban and residential profile, it is home to many sporting clubs and facilities. * Allander Leisure Centre * Milngavie Cricket Club * Milngavie Bowling Club * Claremont Bowling Club * Clober Golf Club * Milngavie Golf Club * Milngavie Wanderers AFC * Nuffield Health Fitness and Wellbeing * Hilton Park Golf Club * Glasgow Vipers Inline Hockey Club * Sports Direct Fitness.com (formerly LA Fitness) * Milngavie Lawn Tennis Club * Western Wildcats Hockey Club * Milngavie Football Club * Milngavie and Bearsden Amateur Swimming Club


Notable people

The playwright
Robert McLellan Robert McLellan OBE (1907–1985) was a Scottish Renaissance dramatist, writer and poet and a leading figure in the twentieth century movement to recover Scotland’s distinctive theatrical traditions. He found popular success with plays and ...
grew up in the town where his father, John, founded and ran the local Allander Press, with premises in the Black Bull Yard from c.1912. The footballer
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, who played for Dumbarton, Celtic, Borussia Dortmund and Hibernian, and at international level for Scotland, was born and brought up in Milngavie. The former
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leader
Jo Swinson Joanne Kate Swinson (born 5 February 1980) is a former British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from July to December 2019. Swinson was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire ( ...
was born and brought up in Milngavie. She attended local school
Douglas Academy Douglas Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive school, comprehensive Secondary education in Scotland, secondary school in the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. I ...
. She is the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment relations, consumer and postal affairs, having lost her seat in the 2015 General Election, only to regain it in 2017. She then lost her seat in 2019, resulting in Jo stepping down as leader for the Liberal Democrat Party. Prof
Edward Eisner Edward Eisner FRSE FIP (20 December 1929 – 25 December 1987) was a Hungarian-born physicist who was Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Strathclyde from 1968 to 1987. He specialised in the physics of sound. The "Edward Eisner Memo ...
of the
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lived in Milngavie. Racing driver
Gerry Birrell Gerald Hussey Buchanan Birrell (30 July 1944 – 23 June 1973) was a British racing driver from Scotland, who was killed in a wreck during practice for a Formula Two race at Rouen-Les-Essarts. Born in Milngavie near Glasgow, Birrell left schoo ...
was born and raised in Milngavie before moving south to London as he became more successful. Margaret Cunnison (29 May 1914 – 4 January 2004) was a Scottish aviator and the first Scottish woman flying instructor. She was one of the first women to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Professional footballer
Greg Docherty Greg Alexander Docherty (born 10 September 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Charlton Athletic. He has previously played for Hamilton Academical, Rangers, Shrewsbury Town, Hibernian and Hull Ci ...
was born in the town and attended
Douglas Academy Douglas Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive school, comprehensive Secondary education in Scotland, secondary school in the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. I ...
. He is currently club captain at
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and has previously played for
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,
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and
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.


See also

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Milngavie water treatment works Milngavie water treatment works (commonly known as The Waterworks) is a Scottish Water-operated water treatment facility located in Milngavie, Scotland. It is the primary source of water for the city of Glasgow (and the Greater Glasgow area) in ...
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*
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References

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