Eaglesham
Eaglesham is a village in East Renfrewshire in Scotland. It is between Glasgow and East Kilbride and is seen as very affluent and is connected to Waterfoot which is a hamlet with very expensive houses.Photo: Kenneth Mallard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Polnoon Castle and Picketlaw Reservoir.
Polnoon Castle
Castle
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
Polnoon Castle was a 14th-century fortification located on a motte beside the Polnoon Water in Millhall, in the Parish of Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waterfoot and Thorntonhall.
Waterfoot
Village
Photo: John McLeish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Waterfoot is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is on the B767 road between Clarkston and Eaglesham, which are 1 mile to the north and south respectively, while Newton Mearns is about 2 miles to the west and East Kilbride about 5 miles to the southeast.
Thorntonhall
Village
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorntonhall is an affluent village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, lying around 6 miles to the south of Glasgow, and around 2+1⁄2 miles west of East Kilbride. Thorntonhall is situated 2 miles northeast of Eaglesham.
Gardenhall
Quarter
East Kilbride, often referred to as EK, is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. Historically a small village, it was designated Scotland's first "new town" on 6 May 1947, and thereafter widely expanded.
Eaglesham
- Type: Village with 3,170 residents
- Description: village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.7407° or 55° 44′ 27″ northLongitude
-4.2739° or 4° 16′ 26″ westPopulation
3,170Elevation
535 feet (163 metres)Open location code
9C7QPPRG+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 124291783OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2650572Wikidata ID
Q638046
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Eaglesham” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Eaglesham”
- Bulgarian: “Еаглешам”
- Cebuano: “Eaglesham”
- Chinese: “伊格尔捨姆”
- Chinese: “伊格尔舍姆”
- Chinese: “伊格爾舍姆”
- Dutch: “Eaglesham”
- French: “Eaglesham”
- German: “Eaglesham”
- Hebrew: “איגלשם”
- Irish: “Baile na h-Eaglais”
- Italian: “Eaglesham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eaglesham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eaglesham”
- Norwegian: “Eaglesham”
- Persian: “ایگلزهام”
- Scots: “The Lang Raw”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile na h-Eaglais”
- Spanish: “Eaglesham”
- Swedish: “Eaglesham”
- Welsh: “Eaglesham”
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