Glenboig
Sign in to saveGlenboig (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 from Glasgow City Centre. According to a estimate, the population of Glenboig was .
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Place details
- Locality
- Coatbridge
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,780
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Glenboig
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- North Lanarkshire
- UK place.post_town
- COATBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_district
- ML5 2
- UK place.postcode_area
- ML
- UK place.static_image_name
- The M73 at Gartcosh from the air (geograph 5178295).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The M73 with Gartcosh in the foreground and Glenboig and Garnqueen Loch in the background
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Bedlay Colliery (1905–1981)
- Demographics
- Glenboig today
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- External links
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 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glenboig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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