Stand is a hamlet in

North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the north-east of the Glasgow City council area and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs, commuter towns, and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk (co ...

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situated on the A73 near Airdrie. Its

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grid reference is NS7668. Stand_-_geograph

The village appeared on a map by

Timothy Pont Reverend Timothy Pont () 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 actual surve ...

, published in 1596. It is near the top right of the map near the Black Loch. Stand is also shown on another map by Roy c1754. The etymology of the name is uncertain although a horse stop or stabling point has been suggested. It is between the Fleming estates at Biggar and

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; ) is a large town in the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, most-populous locality in Scotl ...

Facilities

There is a

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in Stand. For more facilities, residents can travel to nearby towns such as Airdrie,

Coatbridge Coatbridge (, ) 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, Coatbridge forms the area known as the Monklands (popula ...

and

, along with the nearby cities of

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and

Stirling Stirling (; ; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Central Belt, central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town#Scotland, market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the roya ...

References

Populated places in North Lanarkshire Hamlets in Scotland {{Scotland-stub