Kildrum

Autumn colours outside Sacred Heart Church, Kildrum

Kildrum was the first area to be constructed in Cumbernauld new town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for the workers at the Burroughs factory at Old Inns, the first factory in Cumbernauld New Town.[1]

The main road is in the shape of an arc with residential streets leading from it. Inside the arc are ex-corporation houses and there is better quality, mostly private, housing on the outside. The street names of Kildrum are taken from places associated with Robert Burns.

Facilities include Cumbernauld High School, primary school, special school, health centre, YMCA, four shops, hairdressers, chemist, three churches/chapels, Salvation Army.

Kildrum's history did not begin with the new town since as far back as 1 October 1310 Robert the Bruce wrote to Edward II of England from Kildrum[2] trying, unsuccessfully, to establish peace between Scotland and England.[3][4] There was also a farm about which some records exist.[5] The Town Centre and Carbrain lie to the west of Kildrum. To the north is Seafar, to the east Cumbernauld Park and to the south Cumbernauld Glen.[6]

  1. ^ Osborn, Frederic James; Whittick, Arnold (1963). The New towns - The Answer to Megalopolis. London: McGraw-Hill. pp. 312–321. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Dumbarton Sheet XXVI.1 (Cumbernauld) 1864 map". National Library of Scotland. O.S. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Letter from Robert the Bruce to Edward II reveals power struggle in the build-up to Bannockburn". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ^ "OS 25 inch Map 1892-1949". zoomable map with Bing transparency overlay. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  5. ^ Fairweather, Iain. "Kildrum". Our Cumbernauld. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  6. ^ Taylor, Jessica (2010). Cumbernauld: The Conception, Development and Realisation of a Post-war British New Town (PDF). Edinburgh: Edinburgh College of Art. pp. 625–674. Retrieved 25 February 2017.