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unusual facts about Birkenshaw, North Lanarkshire


Peter Manuel

Manuel was born in 1927 to Scottish parents in New York; the family moved to Detroit before migrating back to Britain in 1932, this time to Birkenshaw, North Lanarkshire.


Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort

Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort, known as Clotagenium ("Clyde-mouth") to the Romans is the remains of a Roman legionary fort in North Lanarkshire near Glasgow.

Chic Calderwood

Chic Calderwood (1 September 1937 – 12 November 1966) was a Scottish light-heavyweight boxer from Craigneuk in North Lanarkshire, Scotland who was active from 1957 to 1966.

Dunbartonshire

Cumbernauld was not included in either of the new Dunbartonshire councils, instead being placed in the North Lanarkshire area.

Gordon J. Lithgow

Lithgow grew up in Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, traditionally a mining village, and attended Newarthill Primary School and Braidhurst High School, Motherwell.

Hillend Loch

Hillend Loch is a lake located to the east of Caldercruix in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Ian McKechnie

Ian Hector McKechnie (born 4 October 1941 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.

Jack Birkenshaw

Birkenshaw retained his place for the fifth Test at Bombay, and opened the batting in the second innings, but lost his place for the Pakistan series and played only in the third Test, taking 5–55 and sharing the second-innings wickets equally with Norman Gifford.

Lanarkshire

The old area of Lanarkshire is now mainly occupied by the council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

Margaret Herbison

She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.

Shottskirk

Shottskirk otherwise known as Kirk O' Shotts Parish Church is a local parish church located in Salsburgh North Lanarkshire and serves the village of Salsburgh, town of Shotts and the hamlets in between.


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