East Kilbride

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Scotland

Approximate Population: 73,796

There is a certain sense of duality about East Kilbride. Certainly, the town on the fringes of Glasgow’s great suburban reach was Scotland’s first new town, and has attracted the commuter to its meticulously planned and oft-mocked assembly of roundabouts and cul-de-sacs.

But East Kilbride is not just this new town; old East Kilbride, just along the road from its younger sibling, dates back to Roman times, and takes its name form the Saint Bride, the Irish saint whose County Kildare monks brought Catholicism to the area. Like many places in Scotland and Ireland – Kilmarnock, Kilpatrick, Kilbowie – the ‘kil’ in Kilbride is a giveaway of its ecclesiastical roots, and is an anglicisation of the gaelic ‘cull’, meaning church or grave. Contemporary East Kilbride grew quickly during the post-war housing crisis.

The Second World War had left Glasgow’s tenement housing bursting at the seems, and the hitherto modest village of East Kilbride became the first to be redrafted and re-imagined as the start of Britain’s boom in constructing new towns. Just eight miles from Glasgow’s city centre, and with an excellent road and rail transport infrastructure, East Kilbride lured skilled workers to its residential neighbourhoods.

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