Until the 1780s Busby village consisted of a scatter of cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns.
Castlemilk House was an 18th-century country house and estate located in Carmunnock parish, south of Glasgow, Scotland.
Hairmyres is an area of East Kilbride to the west side of the new town, sited on the main road to Eaglesham and Kilmarnock, and is located 2.2 miles from the Glasgow City Council boundary at the Carmunnock Bypass and 9 miles south from Glasgow City Centre.
National Museums Scotland and partners have developed the National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, which is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between the town of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and the village of Carmunnock in Glasgow.