RUTHERGLEN

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|'Council area:'|| South Lanarkshire
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|'Post town:'|| Glasgow
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|'Scottish Parliament:'|| James Kelly MSP (Glasgow Rutherglen)
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|'UK Parliament:'|| Tommy McAvoy MP (Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
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'The Royal Burgh of Rutherglen' (pronounced: ruh-ther-glen) comes from the Gaelic ''An Ruadh Ghleann'' - "the red valley". Rutherglen is a town located within the south-eastern suburbs of the city of Glasgow, Scotland near the town of Cambuslang. In 1975, it lost its own local council and administratively became part of the city of Glasgow. In 1996 it was reallocated to the South Lanarkshire council area.
The town was famous until around 1910 for its annual horse fairs. It was the oldest royal burgh in Scotland, being more than 500 years older than Glasgow. It was also a centre of heavy industry, having a long coal mining tradition which died out by 1950, and also being home to the infamous White's chemical works up until the 1960s, which was responsible for the huge swathes of the area from southern Glasgow across to the town of Cambuslang being polluted with chromium waste. Rutherglen, along with most of the towns encircling the city, are now dormitory suburbs of Glasgow.
Clyde Football Club used to play in the area before moving to the former new town of Cumbernauld. The immediate area could be considered the cradle of Scottish football, with Hampden Park, the national stadium and home to Scotland's oldest football club Queen's Park F.C. being close by as well as Cathkin Park, the home of the defunct Third Lanark F.C. and not far to the north, Celtic Park, the home of Celtic F.C. . All of which (apart from Clyde's former ground) are located in the City of Glasgow.
The local newspaper is the Rutherglen Reformer.

Contents

Parliamentary burgh and constituencies

Transport

Railway Station

Education

External links

Parliamentary burgh and constituencies

Rutherglen was a parliamentary burgh represented in the U.K. Parliament as a component of Glasgow Burghs constituency from 1708 to 1832, and as a component of Kilmarnock Burghs from 1832 to 1918. In 1918, the Rutherglen constituency was created, which became Rutherglen Glasgow in 1983.
In 1999, The Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen was created, with the same boundaries as the UK parliamentary constituency.
In 2005, Scottish constituencies for the U.K parliament were mostly replaced with new constituencies, and Rutherglen is now within the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. The Scottish Parliament constituencies remain unaltered.

Transport

Rutherglen Main Street is served by numerous bus links into Glasgow City Centre.

Railway Station

''See main article, Rutherglen railway station.''

Education

Schools in the Rutherglen area:
'Non-Denominational Schools'
'Bankhead Primary School'
Bankhead Road
Rutherglen
G73 2BQ
'Burgh Primary School'
41 King Street
Rutherglen
G73 1JY
'Burnside Primary School'
Glenlui Avenue
Burnside
Rutherglen
G73 4JE
'Calderwood Primary School'
Buchanan Drive
Rutherglen
' Spittal Primary School'
Lochlee Road
Spittal
Rutherglen
'Rutherglen High School'
Reid Street
Rutherglen
G73 3DF
'Stonelaw High School' [1]
140 Calderwood Road
Rutherglen
G73 3BP
'Roman Catholic Schools'
'St Anthony's Primary School'
Lochaber Drive
Rutherglen
G73 5HX
'St. Columbkille's Primary School'
Clincarthill Road
Rutherglen
G73 2LG
'St. Mark's Primary School'
Kirkriggs Avenue
Blairbeth
Rutherglen
G73 4LY
'Trinity High School' [2]
Glenside Drive
Eastfield
Rutherglen
G73 3LW
Information about Education Facilities in the whole South Lanarkshire area is available here.

External links

★ Rutherglen Community Council

★ Rutherglen Academy Historic Pictures

★ Photos and information about Rutherglen