Blairlinn
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File:View from West Blairlinn Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1739452.jpg and the Campsie Fells]]
File:Cumbernauld Estates.jpg is to the right of the railway line with the park and ride at Greenfaulds Railway Station. Blairlinn is to the far right over the Luggie]]
File:Stag - geograph.org.uk - 1310600.jpgBlairlinn is the site of one of Cumbernauld's several industrial estates built as satellite developments on the periphery of the Scottish town's residential areas.
Toponymy
The etymology of the name is probably 'Pool, or mill-dam, plain’ (blàr linne).{{cite book|last1=Drummond|first1=Peter, John|title=An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin|date=2014|publisher=Glasgow University|location=Glasgow|page=[http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5270/1/2014DrummondPhD.pdf#page=331 330]|url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5270/1/2014DrummondPhD.pdf}}
Modern Estate
The modern industrial estate is about a mile south of the town centre. It was opened as Blairlinn Industrial Estate by the Secretary of State for Scotland on Friday, 22 September 1961. In 1962 Telehoist was one of the first companies to set up there.{{cite book|last1=Taylor|first1=Jessica|title=Cumbernauld: The Conception, Development and Realisation of a Post-war British New Town|date=2010|publisher=Edinburgh College of Art|location=Edinburgh|page=284|url=https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/1842/8226/1/Taylor2010_FULL.pdf#286|accessdate=25 February 2017}} Some of the early factories were about 22,000 square feet with room for enlargement.{{cite book|last1=Osborn|first1=Frederic James|last2=Whittick|first2=Arnold|title=The New towns - The Answer to Megalopolis|date=1963|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=London|pages=312–321|url=https://archive.org/stream/newtowns00osbo#page/320/mode/2up/search/blairlinn|accessdate=25 October 2017}}
Large companies using the estate include Farmfoods,{{cite news|last1=Campbell|first1=Scott|title=Farmfoods seek permission to expand Cumbernauld HQ|url=http://www.cumbernauld-media.com/news/business/1370-farmfoods-seek-permission-to-expand-cumbernauld-hq|accessdate=6 August 2016|agency=Cumbernauld Media|date=24 June 2015|archive-date=15 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815203839/http://www.cumbernauld-media.com/news/business/1370-farmfoods-seek-permission-to-expand-cumbernauld-hq|url-status=dead}} Dreams,{{cite news|last1=Mullen|first1=Stacey|title=Depot brings jobs to Cumbernauld|url=https://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/depot-brings-jobs-to-cumbernauld-1-3227342|accessdate=27 January 2018|agency=Cumbernauld News|date=12 December 2013}} and Mackintosh.{{cite news|last1=Moss|first1=Victoria|title=Reign of glory: how British heritage house Mackintosh took the catwalks by storm|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/womens-style/reign-of-glory-how-british-heritage-house-mackintosh-took-the-ca/|accessdate=27 January 2018|agency=The Telegraph|publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited|date=18 September 2016}}{{cite news|title=The rebirth of the Mackintosh fashion label|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/fashion/the-rebirth-of-the-mackintosh-fashion-label-1-1494323|accessdate=27 January 2018|agency=The Scotsman|date=8 February 2011}} There are over 20 other companies in the complex.{{cite web|title=Endole Suite|url=https://suite.endole.co.uk/explorer/postcode/g67-2tt|accessdate=27 January 2018}}{{cite web|title=Endole Suite|url=https://suite.endole.co.uk/explorer/postcode/g67-2tf|accessdate=27 January 2018}}
North of the estate is a steep glen through Luggiebank Wood which is now a nature reserve managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.{{cite web|title=Luggiebank Wood|url=http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserve/luggiebank-wood/#go-tabs-1|publisher=Scottish Wildlife Trust|accessdate=6 August 2016}}
History
File:West Blairlinn Farm (ruin) - geograph.org.uk - 1739445.jpg
Before the building of the new town, there were three farmsteads known as Wester, Mid and Easter Blairlinn.{{cite web|title=Blairlinn, North Lanarkshire|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst7937.html|website=The Gazetteer for Scotland|accessdate=27 January 2018}} All three were south of the Luggie Water with Wester Blairlinn near the east bank of the Shank Burn and Easter Blairlinn near the west bank of the Cameron Burn.{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch map 1892-1949, with Bing opacity slider|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=55.9300&lon=-3.9899&layers=168&b=1|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|accessdate=12 October 2017}} Mid Blairlinn and Easter Blairlinn are reported to have had some coal within 900 feet of the surface.{{cite book|editor-last1=Brown|editor-first1=M. Walton |title=Transactions Of The Federated Institution Of Mining Engineers|date=1897|publisher=Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain ).|location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne|page=448|edition=VOL. XII-1896-97|url=https://archive.org/stream/miningengineer16goog#page/n506/mode/2up/search/blairlinn|accessdate=27 January 2018}} There seems to have been an old flax mill at Pettycastle, West Blairlinn.{{Canmore |num=179769 |desc=Wester Blairlinn|access-date=2009-04-02}} It is shown as a ruin on the first edition of the six inch ordnance survey map of Lanarkshire.{{cite web|title=Pettycastle Flax Mill (ruin)|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.9297&lon=-3.9992&layers=5&b=1|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|accessdate=27 January 2018}} Several other old maps show Blairlinn with various spellings including maps by Charles Ross,{{cite web|title=Ross' map with repair around Blairlin|url=http://maps.nls.uk/joins/641.html|website=NLS|accessdate=27 January 2018}} William Forrest,{{cite web|title=Forrest's Map|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.9363&lon=-3.9782&layers=119952600&b=1|website=NLS|accessdate=27 January 2018}} and William Roy.{{cite web|title=Roy's map of the Lowlands|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.9272&lon=-3.9984&layers=4&b=1|website=NLS|accessdate=27 January 2018}}
File:Blaeu - Atlas of Scotland 1654 - GLOTTIANA PRÆFECTVRA INFERIOR - Longriggend.png's map{{cite web|last1=Blaeu|first1=Joan|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=14&lat=55.9386&lon=-3.9945&layers=17&b=1&point=55.9194,-3.9653|title=Glottiana Praefectura Inferior|website=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=30 December 2017}} based on Pont's original{{cite web|title=Glasgow and the county of Lanark - Pont 34|url=http://maps.nls.uk/rec/297|website=Maps of Scotland|publisher=Timothy Pont (16th century)|accessdate=31 December 2017}} "Glasgow and the county of Lanark" map c.1596 depicting Blairlyne{{cite web|title=Pont Placenames|url=http://maps.nls.uk/pont/placenames/a-d.html|website=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=27 January 2018}} (Blairlinn) between the Schanck (Shank Burn) and Kamrõ (Cameron Burn)]]
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