Rutherglen

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Rutherglen
Gaelic:	An Ruadh Ghleann
Scots:	Rutherglen
Location
OS grid reference:	NS590615
Statistics
Population:	25,000
Administration
Council area:	South Lanarkshire
Constituent country:	Scotland
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Police force:	Strathclyde Police
Lieutenancy area:	Lanarkshire
Former county:	Lanarkshire
Post office and telephone
Post town:	Glasgow
Postal district:	G73
Dialling code:	0141
Politics
Scottish Parliament:	Janis Hughes MSP (Glasgow Rutherglen) Glasgow
UK Parliament:	Tommy McAvoy MP (Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
European Parliament:	Scotland

Rutherglen (said: Rhu-ther-glehn) 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 is 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Education

Schools in the Rutherglen area:

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

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

Rutherglen High School Reid Street Rutherglen G73 3DF

Stonelaw High School [1] 140 Calderwood Road Rutherglen G73 3BP

Trinity High School [2] Glenside Drive Eastfield Rutherglen G73 3LW

Information about Education Facilities in the whole South Lanarkshire area is available here.

[edit] External links

• Rutherglen Community Council
• Rutherglen Academy Historic Pictures
• Photos and information about Rutherglen