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55°48′58″N4°01′34″W / 55.816°N 4.026°W. 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. Other nearby localities are Motherwell 2 mi (3 km) to the south, Hamilton 3 mi (5 km) to the southwest ...
Apr 25, 2024 · 2. Jackie Bird. Former BBC Scotland news anchor Jackie Bird was born in Bellshill in July 1962 as the daughter of Linda and Ronnie Macpherson. Photo: Alan Peebles/BBC. 3. Matt Busby. Legendary Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby was born in Bellshill in 1909. A sports centre was named in his honour in the area which was opened in 1995.
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Bellshill Lanarkshire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Bellshill like this: Bellshill, a mining town of Bothwell parish, N Lanarkshire, 9 miles by road ESE of Glasgow, 3 5 / 8 S of Coatbridge, and 4 N by E of Hamilton, with stations on the Uddingston ...
Many of its sandstone buildings date from the late-Victorian era with the notable exception of the parish church (1762). Bellshill Hospital, opened in the 1870s in the countryside a mile (1.5 km) to the north of the village to treat infectious diseases, but became Lanarkshire's first Maternity Hospital in 1917. There are sizeable industrial ...
About 1810, this new settlement took on the name Bellshill and continued to grow absorbing nearby villages such as Black Moss, Sykehead and Nesnas. After the mid-19th century, large coal and iron deposits were discovered nearby and a number of mines opened, the first being the Thankerton mine.
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