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Auchinloch

Village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Summary

Village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Field	Value
official_name	Auchinloch
gaelic_name	Achadh an Loch
country	Scotland
static_image_name	Auchinloch from the air (geograph 5681698).jpg
static_image_caption	Wester Auchinloch from the air, 2018
static_image_alt	Wester Auchinloch from the air, 2018
population
population_ref	()
os_grid_reference	NS657447
post_town	GLASGOW
postcode_area	G
postcode_district	G66 5
dial_code	0141
pushpin_map	Scotland North Lanarkshire#Scotland Glasgow
unitary_scotland	North Lanarkshire
lieutenancy_scotland	Lanarkshire
coordinates

Auchinloch () is a village in Scotland, situated within the North Lanarkshire local authority area but very close to the boundary with East Dunbartonshire and sharing the G66 postcode of the town of Kirkintilloch and the adjoining village of Lenzie, located a short distance to the north. Other nearby settlements in North Lanarkshire are Stepps to the south and Chryston to the south-east, each approximately 1.3 mile away across farmland and on the opposite side of the M80 motorway; the Glasgow City council area boundary and the suburb of Robroyston is about the same distance to the west. In previous years Auchinloch was in the Parish of Cadder and, from 1975 until 1996, the district of Strathkelvin within Strathclyde Region.

The village's name - "Field of the Loch" - derives from its proximity to a small loch called the Gadloch. The area was sometimes known as the Loch Lands.

History

The etymology of the name is 'Field of the loch' (achadh an locha). Several old documents show Auchinloch with various spellings including maps by Timothy Pont, Charles Ross, and William Roy. There is some evidence that the religious revivals of the 18th century touched the village. The housing used to consist mainly of two parallel rows of single-storied weavers' cottages. One gazetteer, Samuel Lewis, describes coal being hardly worth digging with some limestone quarrying with a works established at Garnkirk. He quotes 138 inhabitants. Around 1860, there were 126 inhabitants. There was also a convalescent home at Auchinloch; in 1864 it had 64 places for residents. Industrialisation came in the 1880s, with the opening of the Lumloch colliery, and then in the 1920s Wester Auchengeich near to the older Lumloch Colliery and Auchengeich Colliery near Moodiesburn. Wester Auchengeich closed in 1968.

Outside modern Auchinloch near Auchinleck Farm is the Wallace Well, sited almost exactly on the boundary between Glasgow and North Lanarkshire. This used to be called Auchinloch Well, was common to all farmers, and is mentioned in the New Statistical Account.

The village

Auchinloch and Gadloch from the air, with [[Lenzie]] beyond

Blaeu's Map (1654) showing the area around Auchinloch eastwards of [[Glasgow

The newer western part of the village (sometimes known as 'Wester Auchinloch', while the older part at Stepps Road is prefixed with 'Easter') includes Auchinloch Primary School. The present building dates to the 1930s, whilst the original 19th century building still remains to the east and now serves as the village hall/community centre. Auchinloch Community Centre lies at the top of the village near the local pub. There is also a Bowling Green in the village and Cardyke Farm Shelter, a branch of the Cats Protection Society, a short distance to the west. The village is in the catchment area for Lenzie Academy.

References

{{Scottish settlement population citation
[https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/?id=38606 Auchinloch - Achadh an Loch] [[Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba]]
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(1877). "The life of George Whitefield". Hodder.
(1754). "Historical collections relating to remarkable periods of the success of the Gospel, and eminent instruments employed in promoting it". Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis.
(1846). "A topographical dictionary of Scotland ...". S. Lewis and Co..
(1856). "Rambles Round Glasgow". Thomas Murray and Son.
(1894). "Kirkintilloch, town and parish". J. Smith.
(1882). "Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical". T.C. Jack.
(2006-02-06). "Kirkintilloch Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More".
"Glasgow, Robroyston Mains, Wallace's Well". [[Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland]].
(1845). "The new statistical account of Scotland". W. Blackwood and Sons.
(26 September 2000). "Small beginnings".
(2011-08-31). "Our School". auchinloch.n-lanark.sch.uk.
(15 September 2016). "Desperate house hunters camp out to secure home in Lenzie school area".

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