Carbrain
Carbrain /kar 'bren/ is a neighbourhood in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It gets a brief mention on William Roy's eighteenth century map of the Scottish Lowlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighbourhood of Cumbernauld, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Carbrain, Cumbernauld”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cumbernauld railway station and Greenfaulds railway station.
Cumbernauld railway station
Railway station
Photo: Euan Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cumbernauld railway station serves the town of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the Cumbernauld Line, 14 miles north east of Glasgow Queen Street station and the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line, 11+3⁄4 miles north of Motherwell.
Greenfaulds railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greenfaulds railway station serves the Greenfaulds area of the town of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is also within walking distance of the Lenziemill industrial estate, the Luggie Water and the Blairlinn industrial estate.
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, Cumbernauld
Church
Photo: David Bremner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cumbernauld and Seafar.
Cumbernauld
Photo: Sarah McGuire, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cumbernauld is a town on Clydeside 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.
Seafar
Suburb
Seafar is an area of the town of Cumbernauld. The original Seafar sand pit and farm were in the middle of what is now the A8011. Early in the new town's history Seafar was more distinct from Ravenswood and Muirhead than it now is possibly due to the building schedule and signage on paths.
Greenfaulds
Suburb
Greenfaulds is an area of the town of Cumbernauld in Scotland. Greenfaulds was a half council half private estate built in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Carbrain
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.94399° or 55° 56′ 38″ northLongitude
-3.98455° or 3° 59′ 4″ westElevation
443 feet (135 metres)Open location code
9C7RW2V8+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 381955859OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Scottish Gaelic—“Carbrain” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Carbrain”
- Irish: “Carbrain”
- Irish: “Gart na Bràthan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Carbrain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gart na Bràthan”
- “Carbrain”
- “Carbrain - Gart na Bràthan”
- “Gart na Bràthan”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lenziemill and West Waterhead.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cumbernauld Free Church and St. Joseph’s Church.
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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 “Carbrain”. Photo: Ritchyblack, FAL.