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unusual facts about Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire



Cheltenham Spa Express

The Cheltenham Spa Express is a British named passenger train service from Paddington station, in London, to Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire, via Reading, Kemble, Stroud, Stonehouse and Gloucester.

Croftfoot railway station

Croftfoot railway station is a railway station that lies directly on the City of Glasgow / South Lanarkshire boundary (the western part in Glasgow and the eastern part being in South Lanarkshire) serving the Croftfoot area of the City of Glasgow and the Spittle area of the town of Rutherglen, Scotland.

George Nayler

Sir George Nayler, KH (bapt. 29 June 1764, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire – 28 October 1831, Hanover Square, Mayfair) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 6th Earl of Minto

In 1965 Lord Minto married, secondly, Mary Elizabeth Ballantine (29 December 1936 — 24 January 1983), daughter of Peter Ballantine, of Stonehouse Farm, Gladstone, New Jersey, United States.

James Gibb Ross

Born in Carluke, a village of South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Ross emigrated to Canada in 1832 with his brother, John Ross, settling in Quebec City.

John Bidlake

He was curate of Plymouth's Stonehouse Chapel, now St George's Church, from 1785 to 1812.

Lanarkshire

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

Loch Gate

Loch Gate (NS 62389 37170), previously known as Loch Gait, was a freshwater loch, partly in the East Ayrshire Council Area and partly in South Lanarkshire, now mainly drained, near Darvel, lying in a glacial kettle hole, Parish of Galston, Scotland.

National Museum of Rural Life

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.

Newark Park

Mrs Annie Poole King family, widow of a Bristol shipping merchant took the leasehold in 1898, moving from the larger Standish House at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

Philip Ashmole

In the same year he became a research student at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (EGI) and accompanied the scientists' couple Bernard and Sally Stonehouse and the ornithologist Doug Dorward on a two-year expedition of the British Ornithologists' Union to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

River Cart

The river forms the boundary between East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire here before running through the centre of the village of Busby after which it runs around the eastern side of Clarkston and Netherlee where it crosses the Glasgow city boundary into Linn Park, heading downstream to Cathcart.

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt, 1st Baronet

He married in 1884, Frances Layland (Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, CBE 1920) of Stonehouse, Wallasey.

Star 107.9

Star 107.9 was a UK Independent Local Radio station centred on the area of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, also broadcasting to other localities including Cirencester, Tetbury and Stonehouse, and Dursley on a 107.3 FM relay (originally 107.2 FM).

Stoke Military Hospital

The Stonehouse Creek was later filled in during the 1960s to become Victoria Park, The Stonehouse Sharks Junior Rugby Team's grounds and The playing fields of Devonport High School for Boys.

Stonehouse Pipe Band

Mrs. Millar’s brother was Alexander Hamilton of Kidderminster who had also gifted a public park to the village of Stonehouse in 1925.

Stonehouse, Plymouth

During 1882, Arthur Conan Doyle worked as a newly qualified physician at 1 Durnford Street, East Stonehouse.

The site of the original settlement of Stonehouse is now mostly occupied by the complex of Princess Yachts.

During the reign of Henry VII defences at the mouth of the Tamar were strengthened by the building of cannon-bearing towers.

Uddingston Grammar School

Uddingston Grammar School is the only high school in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.


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