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Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, ten miles (sixteen kilometres) southeast of Glasgow city centre and 37 mi (60 km) west of Edinburgh.
Apr 25, 2024 · Bellshill is a town found in North Lanarkshire ten miles southeast of Glasgow city centre which has produced many famous faces. The first mention of the town dates back to 1596 when it appeared on a handwritten map by Timothy Pont with it having a rich history of being an industrial town.
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Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, ten miles (sixteen kilometres) southeast of Glasgow city centre. About 20,000 people live there.
Apr 26, 2012 · Pictures and narratives of Bellshill, A town near Glasgow in Scotland, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
William Baird & Co, of Gartsherrie, opened the Bothwell Park Colliery at Fallside in 1879. It employed a total of 668 workers, with 548 working below ground and 120 on the surface. Of these, 332 lived in the miners’ rows we see here, which had been built in 1879.
Bellshill is now part of North Lanarkshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Lanarkshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bellshill itself, go to Units and Statistics .
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Bellshill is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [ 2] Created in 2007, it originally returned three councillors, covering part of Bellshill (including the Orbiston, Hattonrigg, Shirrell and West End neighbourhoods but not Milnwood, Thorndean, the town centre east of Hamilton Road / North Road, nor ...
