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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. Other nearby localities are Motherwell 2 mi (3 km) to the south, Hamilton 3 mi (5 km) to the southwest, Viewpark 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (2.5 km) to the west, Holytown 2 mi (3 km) to the east and Coatbridge 3 mi (5 km) to ...
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. About 20,000 people live there.
The town of Bellshill (including the villages of Orbiston and Mossend) has a population of about 20,650. [3] [4] From 1996 to 2016, it was considered to be part of the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area.
The streetscape project which will see Bellshill town centre completely changed started in April 2007 and is scheduled to run for 75 weeks, once complete this will see an end to Bellshill Cross and Main Street will be a one way street. Churches. There are also several churches in the town, including: Church of Scotland: The West Church
These were built from 1902–30, with the largest 10 metres in diameter and 18 metres high – it was known as Big Ben. A large number of Lithuanians, escaping poverty and persecution, came to the Bellshill area and, by 1914, possibly as many as 5,000 had settled in the area. Many of them worked as miners where the pay was much better than they ...
BELLSHILL, a village, in the parish of Bothwell, Middle ward of the county of Lanark, 1½ mile (E.) from Bothwell; containing 1013 inhabitants. It lies on the great road from Edinburgh to Glasgow, and the hill from which it is named attains an elevation of 372 feet above the sea. The population partake in the manufactures of the parish.
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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 and Holytown branch of ...
