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Cumbernauld town centre Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cumbernauld town centre

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Cumbernauld town centre history

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Cumbernauld was designated as a new town in December 1955, part of a plan, under the New Towns Act 1946, to move 550,000 people out of Glasgow and into new towns to solve the city’s overcrowding. Construction of its town centre began under contractors Duncan Logan, chief architect Leslie Hugh Wilson and architect Geoffrey Copcutt (until 1962 and 1963) Phase 1 lasted from 1963 to 1967. Regarded at the time as a “milestone in urban design,” the centre would be surrounded by high-density housing without shops or other amenities, with each neighbourhood connected to the structure by pathways.

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35 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Cumbernauld town centre places to visit

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Cumbernauld town centre has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Cumbernauld town centre’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Cumbernauld town centre’s information audio spots:

Carrickstone Carrickstone is on the north of the M80 and west of Cumbernauld Town Centre. The area it now occupies used to be covered by a farm.

Cumbernauld town centre Cumbernauld town centre was designed in the 1950s as a megastructure. Phase 1 was completed between 1963 and 1967, and the centre was opened by Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon in May 1967. It was expanded in 2007 by the addition of the Antonine Centre, a shopping centre linked to the older structure by walkways and lifts.

Cumbernauld Village Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1955. The Village has a pre-mediaeval history, with a Roman settlement being built in the area due to its proximity to the Antonine Wall. After the Roman period the settlement remained and grew to such an extent that the Comyns family built their chapel there.

Kildrum Kildrum was the first area to be constructed in Cumbernauld new town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for workers at Burroughs factory at Old Inns. The main road is in the shape of an arc with residential streets leading from it.

Cumbernauld House Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century Vivido Scottish country house. It was built in 1731, to designs by William Adam, for John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown. The house is situated on the site of (former) Cumbernault Castle, which was besieged by General Monck in 1651.

Cumbernauld Castle The Motte of the earliest castle survives, and stones of the second castle are incorporated in the present house. Cumbernauld Castle was the predecessor of Cumbernault House in the Park.

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