Dullatur
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Dullatur Scottish Gaelic Dubh Leitir |
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 58 ′ N , 4 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 697 2011 census | ||
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| Post town | GLASGOW | ||
| ZIP code section | G68 | ||
| prefix | 01236 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | North Lanarkshire | ||
| British Parliament | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | ||
Dullatur ( Gaelic : Dubh Leitir ) is a village in the Scottish council area of North Lanarkshire . It is located south of the Forth and Clyde Canal about three kilometers north of Cumbernauld . Falkirk is 15 km northeast, Glasgow 18 km southwest. In 2011 Dullatur had 697 inhabitants.
history
At the time of the Roman occupation of Britain, a road along the north of the Antonine Wall led past today's Dullatur. There were also two Roman route camps in the local area. In the course of an archaeological investigation of the area, however, no significant finds from Roman times could be made. However, a large piece of green coating was found that could have come from a clan camp in the 14th century when fighters gathered in the area prior to the Battle of Bannockburn .
The village developed with the arrival of the railroad in 1842. Dullatur received its own station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway , which was an incentive for wealthy merchants to settle. For this reason, numerous villas from this period still shape the townscape today. These include Dunluce and Woodend, two buildings by the well-known architect Alexander Thomson , which are listed in the highest Scottish monument category A. The railway line is still used today as the Glasgow to Edinburgh via the Falkirk Line . The Dullatur train station, on the other hand, has since been closed without replacement.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information about Dullatur ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ 2011 census
- ↑ Lawrence Keppie : Excavation of Roman Sites at Dullatur and Westerwood, 1974-6 . Glasgow Archaeological Journal, 1978, pp. 9-18, ( digitized ).
