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Kildrum

Kildrum was the first area to be constructed in new town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for the workers at the Burroughs factory at Old Inns, the first factory in Cumbernauld New Town.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: human settlement in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Kildrum, Lanarkshire” and “Kildrum, North Lanarkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, Cumbernauld and Cumbernauld House.

Church
Photo: David Bremner, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Park
Photo: Stevie Spiers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an 18th-century country house located in , Scotland. It is located near in the Cumbernauld Glen, close to , at grid reference NS772759.

School
is a comprehensive secondary school in , Scotland. The original Cumbernauld High School was designed by Scottish architects Gratton & McLean and it opened in 1964 as a non-denominational, co-educational, secondary school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cumbernauld Village and Cumbernauld.

Suburb
Photo: Texas Radio and The Big Beat, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an area of . Whilst Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1955, the Village itself has a pre-mediaeval history, with a Roman settlement being built in the area due to its proximity to the .

Photo: Sarah McGuire, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town on in central Scotland, 13 miles northeast of Glasgow, with a population of 50,500 in 2022. Its centre is a drab vista of 1960s "New Town" concrete plazas and shopping centres, and most visitors are just stopping over on the way to the Highlands.

Suburb
/kar 'bren/ is a neighbourhood in , in . It gets a brief mention on William Roy's eighteenth century map of the Scottish Lowlands.

Kildrum

Latitude
55.95315° or 55° 57′ 11″ north
Longitude
-3.97229° or 3° 58′ 20″ west
Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)
Open location code
9C7RX23H+73
Open­Street­Map ID
node 381955858
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
13268237
Wiki­data ID
Q6406795
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Irish to Spanish—“Kildrum” goes by many names.
  • Irish: “Coille an Droma”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Coille an Droma”
  • Spanish: “Kildrum”
  • “Coille an Droma”
  • “Kildrum”
  • “Kildrum - Coille an Droma”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kildrum”. Photo: Ritchyblack, FAL.