Duncanrig Secondary School

Duncanrig Secondary School is a secondary school within the town of East Kilbride in the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The original building was designed in 1953 by the Scottish architect Basil Spence.

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Westwoodhill

Westwoodhill is an area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire. Along with Murrayhill, it forms a boundary between Westwood and The Murray. Along the western boundary, towards Westwood, lies a grassy recreation area with a couple of playparks for children. The eponymous Highway also connects these areas to Greenhills, Newlandsmuir and Mossneuk. Within the area lies Westwoodhill Evangelical Church and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

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Westwood, East Kilbride

Westwood is an area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride. It was name-checked by one of its former inhabitants, Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, in the song "Somewhere In My Heart". Part of the song's lyrics proclaim "From Westwood to Hollywood, The one thing that's understood, Is that you can't buy time, But you can sell your soul, And the closest thing to heaven is rock and roll". Westwood is home to one secondary School, which under South Lanarkshire Council's Schools modernisation programme, was the first of the new schools in the town to be built, near to the site of the original school building. It also boasts two primary schools, East Milton Primary School based in Vancouver Drive and Canberra Primary School which is located on Belmont Drive. Westwood like its other neighbourhoods has a parade of shops, being based in Westwood Square. Westwood is home to Westwood Amateur Football Club who play in the Strathclyde Saturday Morning Amateur Football League.

University Hospital Hairmyres

University Hospital Hairmyres is a district general hospital in the Hairmyres neighbourhood of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The hospital serves one of the largest elderly populations in Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire.

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Greenhills, East Kilbride

Greenhills is an area within the Scottish new town of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire in Greater Glasgow. Greenhills is residential neighbourhood in the south western area of East Kilbride. It takes its name from the former farm of Greenhills which occupied the eastern part of the area later developed as Greenhills neighbourhood. Most of the area forming the present Greenhills comprises the ancient small estate of Lickprivick which Greenhills farm was never a part of. This neighbourhood represents part of the Southern Development Area of the New Town of East Kilbride, which later incorporated an annexe called Whitehills (never a distinct neighbourhood). The primary motivation to create the area relied on intense pressure to accommodate a far higher level of Glasgow-region overspill. The streets mainly explore residential naming themes of trees, shrubs, ducks, waders, and Scottish golf courses. The housing stock of Greenhills proper was mostly built from early 1970s to early 1980s. The public house called the Greenhills Bar was built during the mid 1970s and formed part of the wider Greenhills Neighbourhood Centre development - known as Greenhills Square. Greenhills Parish Church was completed in April 1977. The Greenhills shopping centre at Greenhills Square is situated adjacent to the highest point in the urban zone of East Kilbride, known locally as 'The High Point' and originally as the Lickprivick Mound. This is marked by a prominent OS trig pillar. It has been suggested in recent times that the mound represents the remains of an early motte and timber castle of the Lickprivick family, whose later castle stood nearby at Troon Court to the north. However, this suggestion mooted in the 2000s was purely speculation with some serious critical issues attached to it, and some other evidence points to different origins such as a possible 'moothill'. The shopping centre is served by some of the local bus services to and from Glasgow, chiefly the 18 and 21 operated by First Glasgow services. Until June 2005, Greenhills was served by two secondary schools, Ballerup ( which adjoined farmland to the south) and St Andrews, both completed in 1978. These schools have since been demolished and their pupils merged with two other schools - Duncanrig and St Brides, respectively. This change occurred as part of SLC's East Kilbride's school modernisation programme. Parts of Greenhills are 699 ft (213m) elevation, above sea level.