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Whitehills, East Kilbride
Whitehills is an area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride, in South Lanarkshire. It is a residential area in the south-east of the town, adjacent to Greenhills. It houses the Ballerup Recreation Area, which includes open land and several football pitches. The site of the former St. Andrews High School has since been redeveloped to create social housing and the Alistair McCoist sports Complex.
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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.
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Kelvin, South Lanarkshire
Kelvin is an area of the new town of East Kilbride, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The area is a large industrial estate in the south-east of the town, surrounded by the St. Leonards, High Whitehills and The Murray residential districts, and Calderglen Country Park. The area is named after Lord Kelvin.
In 1995, several modern units were built and the area was named Kelvin South Business Park with Sainsbury's latterly building a large warehouse/transport depot. In 2008, South Lanarkshire College (previously based at several sites in the area) opened its new centralised campus in Kelvin.
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The Murray, East Kilbride
The Murray is a residential neighbourhood in the new town of East Kilbride, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; it lies immediately to the south of the town centre, and the East Kilbride Shopping Centre (access for pedestrians is mainly via underpasses beneath the A726 Queensway), and adjacent to the Westwood, Greenhills and Whitehills neighbourhoods to the west, south-west and south-east respectively.
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Birniehill
Birniehill is an area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride, in South Lanarkshire. It lies southeast of the Town Centre, south of St Leonards and northeast of The Murray.
The northbound exit of Birniehill roundabout (which in common with four others in the centre of East Kilbride has underpasses for pedestrians and cyclists at each corner and a sunken landscaped area at its centre) is the start point of the A725 road (known as the 'Kingsway' within the town) which continues north and then east towards Hamilton and the M74 motorway; the east/west exits of the roundabout are the 'Queensway' (A726) which connects the town to Strathaven further south and to the towns of East Renfrewshire further west. The southbound exist leads on to the site of the National Engineering Laboratories, once home to a small nuclear reactor; the site is better known in current times as the Scottish Enterprise Technology Park. nearby further east is the campus of South Lanarkshire College, completed in 2008.