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Glenboig

Field	Value
country	Scotland
official_name	Glenboig
population
population_ref	()
coordinates
map_type	Scotland
unitary_scotland	North Lanarkshire
post_town	COATBRIDGE
postcode_district	ML5 2
postcode_area	ML
static_image_name	The M73 at Gartcosh from the air (geograph 5178295).jpg
static_image_caption	The M73 with Gartcosh in the foreground and Glenboig and Garnqueen Loch in the background

Glenboig (Scottish Gaelic: An Gleann Bhog) is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland lying north of Coatbridge and to the south east of Kirkintilloch and is approximately 10 mi from Glasgow City Centre. According to a estimate, the population of Glenboig was .

Historically the settlement formed the south eastern extremity of the ancient Gaelic province of the Lennox (Scottish Gaelic: An Leamhnachd) which lay roughly within the former county of Dunbartonshire. The etymology of the name is uncertain but may mean "boggy or soft glen". Some online maps refer to the area as Marnock but locals call the area Glenboig.

Glenboig's main industry was fireclay and Glenboig's name was known across the world.

History

Glenboig Clay Mill (oil on millboard) by William Glover (1836–1916)

Glenboig's main industry was fireclay, centred on the General Refractories and Glenboig Union Fireclay Company Limited's Star Fireclay Works, which made refractory products for the steel and iron industries. Aerial photographs of the works are available. The Glenboig Union Fire-clay Company Limited dates back to 1836.

Glenboig's only railway station closed in 1956. The closest is now . Glenboig's brick making industries ceased after the closure of the last brickworks, P&M (Peter & Mark) Hurll's in July 1980.

The village's first school was built between 1875 and 1876; it has since been replaced.

Bedlay Colliery (1905–1981)

Bedlay Colliery landscape restoration project

Bedlay was a two shaft coal "pit"; one shaft had modern enclosed headgear while the other was of an older type. It was opened in 1905. On 11 December 1981, Bedlay Colliery in the nearby village of Annathill was closed.

In 2009 Glenboig Village Park was completely rebuilt after several million pounds of funding from The National Lottery dramatically increasing its size and including state of the art equipment.

Demographics

Year	Population
1871	307
1881	934
1891	1,360 (19th century statistics include Garnqueen)
1991	1,743
2001	1,837
2011	2,681

Historically the name of the settlement has changed. Before the brickworks the settlement was Garnqueen.

Glenboig today

Glenboig, with the post office on the right

In recent years the village has grown, with the addition of two new Redrow and Barrat housing estates in the early to mid part of the 2000s. The village used to have two pubs - 'The Big Shop' and 'The Village Inn' formerly known as 'The Garnqueen' (after the neighbouring Loch) but colloquially among locals known as 'The Wee Shop' which closed circa 2009, and subsequently, became derelict.

Glenboig also has a post office, hair salon, beauty salon, newsagents, a Chinese food takeaway, Indian food takeaway, a fish and chip shop, and a Londis store.

Within the community there are many small businesses including a flower arrangers, architectural design service and mortgage brokers and professional tree surgeons.

In 2015, a new road was authorised between Glenboig and Gartcosh on the other side of the M73 motorway, as part of a 'community growth area' expansion involving new business units (alongside the existing Police Scotland Scottish Crime Campus facility) and 3000 houses across the development zone, also encompassing land near the village of Mount Ellen north of Gartcosh.

In 2021, work begun on a new housing development site called Meadowside.

In popular culture

Glenboig Clayworks (1935) B&W 7 mins silent by Alexander McKendrik, shows clay being mined and firebricks being moulded
Coronation Celebrations at Glenboig (1953) colour seven mins silent by Alexander McKendrik

Notes

References

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"OS 25 inch, 1892-1905". Ordnance Survey.
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(2014). "An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin". Glasgow University.
(1894). "Brickmaking in the land o' Scots". Windsor and Kenfield Pub. Co..
(1828). "The Post-Office annual Glasgow directory". printed by J. Graham for the letter-carriers of the Post-Office.
[http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/rcahms/202485/glenboig-star-fireclay-works/rcahms?item=1258128 Glenboig Star Fireclay Works], Scotland’s Places
(1909). "Glasgow to-day". H. Munro.
{{Historic Environment Scotland
(1895). "Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical". W. Mackenzie.
[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/road-map-green-light-1-5229436.amp Road map green light for £1 billion community growth in Glenboig], Daily Record, 2 March 2015
[https://www.taylorwimpey.co.uk/new-homes/glenboig/meadowside Meadowside. Main Street, Glenboig, North Lanarkshire] {{webarchive. (24 January 2022). link
"Glenboig Clayworks a seven minute film at the Moving Image Archive". National Library of Scotland.
"Coronation celebrations made by managing director of Glenboig Brickworks a 7 minute film at the Moving Image Archive". National Library of Scotland.

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