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Bellshill est une ville du North Lanarkshire en Écosse, située dans la banlieue nord de Motherwell et à l'est de Glasgow. La population était de 30 000 habitants en 2001 . Église de Bellshill
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 est une ville du North Lanarkshire en Écosse, située dans la banlieue nord de Motherwell et à l'est de Glasgow. Mapcarta, la carte ouverte.
Bellshill est une ville du North Lanarkshire en Écosse, située dans la banlieue nord de Motherwell et à l'est de Glasgow.
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The earliest record of settlement in the Bellshill area is a village called Belmill, recorded on a map by Timothy Pont published in 1654. The village consisted of a row of quarry workers' houses owned by Mr. Bell, who owned a stone quarry to the south of Belmill. After the quarry closed, the village disappeared and a settlement developed nearby cal...
Several churches serve the town. St Andrews United Free Church of Scotland sits at Bellshill Cross whilst the Church of Scotland Parish Churches are at opposite ends of the Main Street with Bellshill Central Parish churchopposite The Academy, and Bellshill West Parish Church next to the Sir Matt Busby Sports Centre. The town's Roman Catholic Parish...
There is a free public library within the Bellshill Cultural Centre. Various singers, such as Sheena Easton, and sportsmen hailed from the town.
Bellshill is also known for its music, especially since the mid-1980s. Bands such as the Soup Dragons, BMX Bandits and Teenage Fanclub put Bellshill on the map as an indie rock hot-spot in Scotland. The scene - known as the Bellshill Sound or the Bellshill Beat - was celebrated by influential DJ John Peel in the Channel 4 television series Sounds O...
The town has a football team, Bellshill Athletic, that plays in the Scottish Junior Football West Premier League. They play their home games at Rockburn park after moving away from Tollcross, Glasgow, after New Brandon Park was closed down to reduce costs. Bellshill also has the Sir Matt Busby Sports Complex (Named after the late Manchester Unitedl...
Bellshill once had six primary schools including Belvidere Primary School. This was closed, however, in early June 2010 and has now been demolished. Holy Family Primary School was founded in 1868 and moved to new buildings in 1907 to accommodate an influx of Lithuanian, Polish and Irish Catholics seeking work in the area. Other primary schools incl...
Bellshill lies at an important point on Scotland's motorway network, situated around 1+1⁄2 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh and their respective airports, and about the same distance north of the M74 motorway to and from England; the A725 road running directly to the west of the town links the two. The p...
The following list refers to notable people who were born in Bellshill, although they did not necessarily reside there - the town was home to Lanarkshire's maternity hospital in the latter part of the 20th century. 1. Jackie Bird, journalist and broadcaster 2. Doug Cameron, Australian politician 3. Gregory Clark, economist 4. Thomas Clark, poet 5. ...
Situated between Coatbridge and Motherwell, 9 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Glasgow, the town of Bellshill lies to the north of the South Calder Water. It includes the neighbourhoods of Orbiston, Hattonrig, Milnwood, Mossend and Shirrel.
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Bellshill es una localidad situada en el concejo de North Lanarkshire, en Escocia (Reino Unido), con una población estimada a mediados de 2016 de 20 290 habitantes. [1] Se encuentra ubicada en el centro de Escocia, entre Glasgow, al oeste, y Edimburgo, al este. Es el lugar de nacimiento de la cantante Sharleen Spiteri (n. 1967).
