Calderwood, East Kilbride
Calderwood is a neighbourhood of the Scottish
Location
Calderwood is the second oldest planned neighbourhood in East Kilbride,
History
The area includes
The area includes Calderwood Glen, the northern section of
Much of Calderwood Glen forms a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for palaeontology and geology, designated on 1 August 1990. [16][17] It is also known for endemic woodland species of flowers, mosses and fungi in pockets of natural and semi-natural ancient woodland, once parts of the primeval woodland of Central Scotland.[18][19] Calderwood Glen was noted for scarce flora by botanists who surveyed the region, including Hennedy, Hooker, Hopkirk, Lee, Patrick and Ure, and whose findings were all included in an edited regional survey of 2016.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
Maxwellton Conservation Area
The 18th–19th-century weaving village of Maxwellton survives as the western part of the Calderwood neighbourhood. Once a rural community, it was the main area of settlement in the Barony lands of the ancient Calderwood Estate, where from 1400 until about 1900, the
The campaign to save the village reached cabinet level in the
Along with a townscape of weaving cottages, Maxwellton preserves the original Calderwood Estate's endowment school, founded by Sir William Alexander Maxwell, 8th Baronet of Calderwood, in 1839.[48][49] This was seen as advanced for its time in providing funds, materials and facilities for a superior educational experience and extensive provisions for educating the poor. The school received an annual endowment from the Barony of Calderwood to support pupils and teacher salaries.[50] The advances by Sir William sufficed for Maxwellton School to be cited and studied several times as an issue in the history of education in Scotland.[51][52] It is now a private dwelling named Alma, classed as a Category B listed building.[53][54]
Facilities
The Calderwood area has the John Wright Sports Centre, named after a prominent 1960s new-town provost and offering a full-length athletics track opened in 1972.[55] Calderwood Square is the main neighbourhood centre for retail and food outlets,[56] Nearby amenities include Calderwood Community Hall,[57] the Alison Lea Medical Centre,[58] and the Moncreiff Church of Scotland parish church, named after a prominent disruption minister connected with East Kilbride and Calderwood, Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet.[59] Calderwood had a local library that has since been converted into a place of worship: the East Kilbride Islamic Centre.[60][61]
Housing
The original housing in the area (each with plumbing and electricity and separate bathrooms and kitchens – a noted improvement for residents used to overcrowded, crumbling inner-city city slums) followed a similar pattern to other parts of the town:
Current schools
Calderwood has five primary schools: Long Calderwood Primary, Maxwellton Primary, Hunter Primary, Greenburn Primary (catering to children with special needs), and St Leonards R.C. Primary. Under South Lanarkshire's Schools Modernisation Programme beginning in the mid 2000s, these were rebuilt and modernised.[64][65]
Until the summer of 2007, there was a secondary school in the area named
Notable people
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- Joanna Baillie, poet and dramatist[67]
- Matthew Baillie, physician[68][69]
- William and Jim Reid, musicians (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
- Ally McCoist, footballer (Rangers and Scotland)
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- ^ "Hunter House". www.calderwoodbaptist.co.uk. Calderwood Baptist Church. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
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- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "181 Maxwelton Avenue, Alma, including gatepiers and boundary walls (LB1025)".
- ^ John Wright Sports Centre, South Lanarkshire Leisure, 2013.
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- ^ Hall Calderwood Hall, South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture.
- ^ Alison Lea Medical Centre, 2011
- ^ Moncrieff Parish Church.
- ^ South Lanarkshire: Calderwood Library, 2012.
- ^ 'New Islamic centre in East Kilbride to open its doors to community, East Kilbride News, 22 August 2018.
- ^ Calderwood 15, 16, Tower Block | University of Edinburgh
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- ^ 'Schools are up to scratch', East Kilbride News, 1 January 2020
- ^ Council's £1.2 billion school modernisation programme ends in Hamilton, Daily Record, 5 January 2020
- ^ Affordable homes to be built on old Hunter High site, East Kilbride News, 15 October 2013.
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- ^ Blood and Glitter: 70 Years of the Citizens Theatre, BBC Documentary, 2015
- ^ Julie Wilson Nimmo, IMDb biography