Silvertonhill

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Silvertonhill is a residential area of Hamilton, Scotland based around Silvertonhill Avenue. It is situated south of the town centre, bounded by Low Waters and Eddlewood. It contains two schools - Woodside Primary School and Chatelherault Primary School. It also has the local nickname of "Spam Valley" due to the belief by others from outside the area that, the people who lived there thought themselves "a cut above the rest". This phrase is thought to originate due to the perceived grandeur of the large houses in the area - that to afford such houses the residents must eat only "spam".

Most of the Silvertonhill estate was built by Wimpey in the late sixties by extending southwards the existing road, which was renamed Silvertonhill Avenue, and breaking through the boundary wall of the "High Parks": the Duke's estate. The old Duke had wisely insisted that this original estate have a high ratio of green space to housing, resulting in the huge green park space between Chatelherault Crescent and S.Avenue. This notably contains some of the Old Oaks for which the High Parks are famous. The woodland of the High Parks to the east of the area is the Duke's private land but is almost an extended playground for the local children, although the banks of the Covan Burn have steep cliff faces.

When originally built this estate was also famous for having only three patterns of key amongst the hundreds of front doors. If locked out, one simply borrowed one's neighbour's key. There were no mortice locks fitted as standard and children returning home were able to put their arms through the side mounted letter boxes and release the latches.

Originally, Bannatyne & Jackson's rose nursery occupied a wide strip of land some five hundred metres long on the north side of the wall, outside the High Parks. This ran from Hutchison Street in the south almost to the Covan Burn in the north east and the land was sold off in three stages from 1962-1977. The newest housing in Silvertonhill dates from this last stage.

Old maps of the area show only one house on the old road. It is the detached house immediately to the south of Johnstone Road.