Uddingston

Coordinates: 55°49′06″N 4°04′58″W / 55.81829°N 4.08275°W / 55.81829; -4.08275

Uddingston
Scottish Gaelic: Baile Udain
Scots: Uddinstoun
Uddingston  Uddingston shown within South Lanarkshire
Population	5,000
OS grid reference	NS696603
Council area	South Lanarkshire
Lieutenancy area	Lanarkshire
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Glasgow
Postcode district	G71 7
Dialling code	01698
Police	Strathclyde
Fire	Strathclyde
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish Parliament	Uddingston and Bellshill
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Uddingston (Scots: Uddinstoun, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Udain)^[1] is a small town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the north side of the River Clyde, about seven miles south-east of Glasgow. Uddingston acts as a dormitory suburb for the city.

Geography and Boundaries

Uddingston is a suburb of Glasgow, seven miles to the south-east of the city centre and approximately two miles east of the Glasgow City Council district of Broomhouse. It is bounded to the south-west by the River Clyde as it flows north-west through Glasgow and separates Uddingston, along with some woodland, from Blantyre and Cambuslang. As such, the Clyde Walkway and National Cycle Route 75 both traverse the town. The nearest settlement to Uddingston is the village of Bothwell, two miles to the east.

The village of Uddingston, which is contained exclusively within the boundaries of South Lanarkshire Council, houses around 5,000 residents. However, the nearby villages of Tannochside, Calderbraes, Viewpark, Birkenshaw and Spindlehowe,contained within North Lanarkshire Council borders and which form a continuous conurbation with Uddingston, claim affiliation with Uddingston and are generally thought to be synonymous with the village or as districts of Uddingston. As a result, the population of this larger manifestation of Uddingston is approximately 25,000 residents. Greater Uddingston shares a boundary with the nearby town of Bellshill (three miles separate the town centres), is four miles south of Coatbridge and via Bothwell four and a half miles north-west of Hamilton.

Facilities

Uddingston is home to Tunnock's factory, famed for its caramel wafers and teacakes. The factory contributes much to the village's economy as does the industrial estate located on the Bellshill Road. In earlier times, mining was a major industry, with the village of Flemington an example of a settlement that failed to survive following the closure of its pit in the 1930s.

Uddingston has a police station, three supermarkets, traditional main street shops, restaurants, pubs and a rail station. It also has several sports clubs including two municipal gyms, a hockey Club,^[2] Cricket Club, Rugby Club, a bowling and tennis club, Calderbraes Golf Club and a junior football club, Thorniewood United.

Uddingston railway station runs two regular hourly services on the Argyle Line and a third hourly service on the Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Line. On the Train running north to Dalmuir or Milngavie via Glasgow, the next stop is Cambuslang. Glasgow Central is six stops and approximately 16 minutes journey time from Uddingston on the Argyle line and one or two stops (dependent on the train) from Glasgow Central on the Edinburgh Train, a journey time of roughly twelve minutes.

Uddingston is served by three buses, two operated by First and one by Coakley. The First 255 and 240 buses run from Motherwell to Buchanan Street Bus Station in Glasgow. The 255 runs through Hamilton and Bothwell then through the east end of Glasgow via Parkhead to the city centre. The 240 runs via Bellshill and adjoins with the 255's route after Uddingston. The Coakley 107 service runs circularly through Uddingston, Hamilton, Wishaw, Motherwell and Bellshill.

Education

The local primary schools, the Roman Catholic St John the Baptist, and the non-denominational Muiredge primary are located side by side adjacent to the main street and Tunnock's factory. Uddingston Grammar School, the non-denominational secondary school, is located on the Meadowbank Floodplain off Old Glasgow Road. The closest Roman Catholic secondary schools are Holy Cross High School in Hamilton and Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill.

Notable residents

Uddingston has been home to several successful footballers: Jimmy Johnstone and George McCluskey both of Celtic; Tommy McQueen who played for Aberdeen, West Ham, Clyde and Falkirk; Iain Munro, a football player, coach and manager; Lindsay Hamilton, who was goalkeeper with Stenhousemuir, Rangers, St Johnstone and Dunfermline, and John Robertson who most notably played at Nottingham Forest.

David Kettle, who won numerous Scottish age group swimming titles in the late 1970s and early 1980s, also came from Uddingston.

Barry Burns, the pianist/guitarist of the Scottish instrumental group Mogwai comes from Uddingston.

Uddingston was the birthplace of James W. Black, (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) the Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for work leading to the discovery of Propranolol and Cimetidine.^[3]

Also hailing from Uddingston is the footballer Gary MacKenzie who attended Uddingston Grammar from 1996-2001.

Nearby villages

Map of Uddingston in 1923

• Blantyre
• Bothwell
• Cambuslang
• Ferniegair
• Viewpark
• Tannochside

Nearby towns and cities

• Bellshill
• Coatbridge
• Glasgow
• Hamilton
• Motherwell

References

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