Swinton is an eastern suburb of the
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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city of
Glasgow
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, north of the areas of
Baillieston
Baillieston () is a working class suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about east of the city centre.
It also gives its name to Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council and forms part of the Glasgow East constituency of the UK Parliament.
Geographical ...
and
Garrowhill
Garrowhill ( or , )
and east of
Springhill. It is now concurrent with the 19th century
Easterhouse
Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, east of the Glasgow city centre, city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. The area is on high ground north of the Ri ...
village (whereas the large housing scheme of the same name lies across the
M8 motorway to the north of Swinton).
The hamlet of Swinton began to emerge with the building of cotton hand loom weavers' cottages in the early 1790s. A housing development was constructed in the 1920s,
Swinton (c.1925)
Virtual Mitchell with more in the 1970s, but most of the current neighbourhood was built from the 1990s onwards.
Easterhouse railway station
Easterhouse railway station serves the Easterhouse area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built by the North British Railway as part of their Coatbridge Branch and opened when the branch opened on 1 February 1871.Butt (1995), page 88 The station is 5 ...
gives direct access to the centre of Glasgow and regular local bus services run along Edinburgh Road to the south of the district.
Swinton Primary School serves the local area (and Springhill), and from here pupils attend Bannerman High School
Bannerman High School is a state secondary school in the Baillieston suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive school within the Glasgow City Council local education authority. The school teaches pup ...
in Baillieston.
References
Areas of Glasgow
Baillieston
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