Peel Park is an area of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a business park, and home to the following companies:
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Philipshill is an area of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, roughly two miles west of the East Kilbride Shopping Centre on the A726.
The name now mostly applies to a small traditional hamlet close to the NMS museum of country life, as well as a nearby hotel and set of office buildings on the edge of the Peel Park campus. Philipshill was originally a much larger territorial unit within the old Lordship of East Kilbride. Its borders included the estate of Hairmyres to the south which was distinguished as Over Philipshill. The modern focus of the area of Philipshill comprises the portion once called Nether Philipshill. The name is widely believed to derive from the Anglo-Norman High Chamberlain of Scotland in the late twelfth century - Philip de Valognes, with dating and place-name analysis in support of this as a probable conclusion The lands originally focused on a mill called Philipshill Mill, and possibly a strategic royal castle on a linked side of the Kittoch Water - a small river flowing through the said lands.
The area features Queensway House, also known as the Centre One Tax Office. This is a record office and call centre built as a replacement of the former building of the same name and function the once existed at East Kilbride town centre.
There was also once a garden centre in Philipshill hamlet.
In 1989, a cemetery opened on Westerfield Road, known as Philipshill Cemetery.
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Hairmyres railway station is a railway station between the Hairmyres and Peel Park areas of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line.
The line was historically single-tracked through the station, with a passing loop approximately 398 metres east of Hairmyres Station, which extended for approximately 584 metres to Kirktonholme Road. It was crossed mid-loop by the A726 Queensway overbridge. Although the line was always single between Busby and East Kilbride, sidings existed to serve the former Radio Times factory in the College Milton Industrial Estate adjacent to the station. These were closed and lifted in the late 1960s. The Hairmyres Hospital and Department for International Development's office are located nearby.
In 2025, the station reopened at a new location, 600m to the west of its original site.
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The National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and Carmunnock in Glasgow. It is run by National Museums Scotland.
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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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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.
Resident companies
British Energy LBJ Memex Technology Limited Micron Technology Intoto Group (formerly Mowlem Energy Services) Wipro IBM SEPA Sulzer Travis Perkins John Macdonald Group Alex McDougall (Mowers) Ltd. Soben Contract & Commercial Ltd
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Peel Park is the location where the Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO) dual-carriageway which connects East Kilbride to the M77 motorway enters the town. Access from East Kilbride comes from the Queensway (A726) or from Eaglesham Road (B764). Redwood Avenue, Drive, Crescent, Road and Place are named after the Giant Redwood (Sequoia) trees in the area.
See also
List of places in South Lanarkshire List of places in Scotland