Kirkintilloch

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Kirkintilloch
Scottish Gaelic Cathair Cheann Tulaich
Kirkintilloch Parish Church
Kirkintilloch Parish Church
Coordinates 55 ° 56 ′  N , 4 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 56 ′  N , 4 ° 9 ′  W
Kirkintilloch (Scotland)
Kirkintilloch
Kirkintilloch
Residents 19,689 2011 census
administration
Post town GLASGOW
ZIP code section G66
prefix 0141
Part of the country Scotland
Council area East Dunbartonshire
British Parliament East Dunbartonshire
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Scottish Parliament Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Kirkintilloch ( Gaelic : Cathair Cheann Tulaich ) is a town in the Scottish council area of East Dunbartonshire . It is located on the northern edge of the Central Belt about eleven kilometers northeast of Glasgow and 23 kilometers west of Falkirk . In the south, Kirkintilloch borders directly on the village of Lenzie .

history

Kirkintilloch emerged from a small settlement near a Roman fort on Antonine Wall , which runs south of the city. At that time the settlement was called Caerpentulach ("Fort at the end of the ridge"), which over the centuries blurred into the current name. Numerous Roman artifacts have been preserved from this period. Based on the settlement structure, it can be concluded that Kirkintilloch was already of a certain importance in the 1st millennium. In the 12th century it received the rights of a burgh . The Cumming clan built an important castle there, but it is completely destroyed today. In 1672 a bridge was built over the Luggie Water in Kirkintilloch , which eased the traffic between Edinburgh , Glasgow, Stirling and Dumbarton . During the Second Jacobite Uprising in 1745, the city was badly hit by parts of the rebel army. In 1832, 36 residents died of cholera . Kirkintilloch thus marks the first occurrence of this disease in western Scotland. Gas lighting was installed in the city in 1839; A waterworks was added in 1874.

As in many surrounding villages, growth related to the textile industry and coal mining began in the 18th century. The opening of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the 1790s, which runs through Kirkintilloch , set another growth spurt . Metal processing companies later settled here. Like many cities in the Glasgow area, Kirkintilloch grew rapidly in the 20th century and was the administrative center of the Strathkelvin district between 1974 and 1996 . Today it is the seat of the administration of East Dunbartonshire.

The abstinence movement is strong in Kirkintilloch . After the Temperance Act was passed in 1913, a vote in favor of an alcohol ban, which lasted until 1968, fell out in 1921.

While the population fluctuated between around 6000 and 9000 after 1841, there were already 14826 people in Kirkintilloch in 1951. At the time of the 2011 census, the city had 19,689 inhabitants.

traffic

Luggie Water Aqueduct : The Luggie Water runs underground, above it ran a railway line, which the canal crosses on an aqueduct.

The city is connected to the road network by the A803 and A806 . The latter connects Kirkintilloch with the four kilometers south of the M80 and the A80 . The A803, however, connects Falkirk with Glasgow via Kilsyth .

In the 1840s, the city was connected to the railway network through the Kirkintilloch Junction (today's Lenzie station ) located south in the moorland . For the first few decades of operation, it was renamed Campsie Junction , then Lenzie Junction and finally Lenzie in 1890 . It is still in operation today and is on the Croy Line of First ScotRail . In the 1850s Kirkintilloch received its own station on the Glasgow to Aberfoyle Line , which has since been abandoned. The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway from the 1820s, however, was a pure freight railway. It was used to transport coal to the Forth and Clyde Canal in Kirkintilloch, which gave Kirkintilloch a certain importance as a cargo handling point.

Attractions

Auld Aisle Cemetery

In Kirkintilloch a total of three buildings of the highest Scottish monument category A can be found. The Old St. Mary's Church of Kirkintilloch dates from the 1640s and is now a museum. The Auld Aisle Cemetery (also Old Isle Cemetery ) was laid out in the early 18th century. The Luggie Water Aqueduct , built in the 1770s, is an engineering masterpiece . It is a junction of three traffic routes, with Luggie Water being channeled underground. The now dismantled railway line of the Glasgow to Aberfoyle Line ran over it and was spanned by an aqueduct that leads the Forth and Clyde Canal.

sons and daughters of the town

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b c d Kirkintilloch. East Dunbartonshire. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ↑ Kirkintilloch. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 4: (Har - Lib). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, pp. 428-429 .
  4. ↑ Information. In: Gazetteer for Scotland. 2011.
  5. ↑ 2011 census
  6. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  7. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  8. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

Web links

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