Garnkirk
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|gaelic_name= Gart nan Cearc
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|constituency_westminster= Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
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|post_town= GLASGOW
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|static_image_caption= site of Garnkirk Burn and Garnkirk House
|static_image_alt= The A80 (r) and M80 (l) from the air. Garnkirk Burn is shown by the line of trees at the bottom left. The fireclay works is now a scrapyard beyond the bottom right on the railway line. Garnkirk House is now the clubhouse at Crow Wood Golf Club.
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Garnkirk is a settlement in North Lanarkshire, located a mile (1.5 km) southwest of Muirhead.{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=55.8942&lon=-4.1136&layers=168&b=3|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=26 October 2017}} It is located 10 km northeast of Glasgow's city centre and 23 km southwest of Falkirk. Garnkirk is connected via the nearby motorways M8, M73 and M80. This provides access to Cumbernauld, Glasgow and Stirling. The nearest modern railway stations are in Gartcosh and Stepps.
History
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The etymology of the name is ‘enclosure of the hen’.{{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=161|url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5270/1/2014DrummondPhD.pdf#page=162|access-date=3 July 2017}} Several old documents show Garnkirk with various spellings including maps by Timothy Pont,{{cite web|title=Garnkirk House on Pont's Map|url=https://maps.nls.uk/pont/modern-places/g-m.html|website=NLS|publisher=Pont|access-date=24 February 2018}} Charles Ross,{{cite web|title=Old County Maps|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=15&lat=55.8953&lon=-4.1160&layers=20&b=5&point=55.8942,-4.1080|website=NLS|access-date=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=55.9020&lon=-4.1378&layers=4&b=3|website=NLS|access-date=27 January 2018}}
John Dunlop bought Garnkirk House in 1634.{{cite book|last1=Dunlop|first1=Archibald|last2=Dunlop|first2=John|title=Dunlop of that ilk : memorabilia of the families of Dunlop ... ; with the whole of the Songs ; and a large selection from the poems of John Dunlop|date=1898|publisher=Kerr and Richardson|location=Glasgow|page=10|url=https://archive.org/stream/dunlopofthatilkm00dunluoft#page/8/mode/2up/search/garnkirk|access-date=24 February 2018}} The house stayed in the family for many years. The Dunlops were well known. For example James Dunlop being a wealthy landowner opposed Thomas Muir and the congregation at Cadder over who appointed their minister.{{cite news|title=Thomas Muir - new evidence unearthed|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2016/december/headline_504475_en.html|access-date=24 February 2018|agency=University news|publisher=Glasgow University|date=14 December 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Phil|title=Newly discovered papers unveil further details about the life of Thomas Muir, 'Father of Democracy'|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14965475.Newly_discovered_papers_unveil_further_details_about_the_life_of_Thomas_Muir__Scottish_political_reformer/|access-date=24 February 2018|agency=The Herald|date=14 December 2016}} The house is now the clubhouse of the Crow Wood Golf Club.{{cite web|last1=Kidd|first1=Neil|title=Garnkirk House|url=http://www.chryston.org.uk/story/p08.htm|website=The Story of Chryston|access-date=24 February 2018}}
"James Dunlop of Garnkirk" was one of the five wealthy supporters of Glasgow's first playhouse in the late 18th century ( a Puritanical spirit suppressing entertainment in the city).History of Glasgow bu John McUre
One gazetteer, Samuel Lewis, describes coal being hardly worth digging Auchinloch with some limestone quarrying with a works established at Garnkirk.{{cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=Samuel|title=A topographical dictionary of Scotland ...|date=1846|publisher=S. Lewis and Co.|location=London|page=76|url=https://archive.org/stream/topographicaldv100lewi#page/466/mode/2up/search/garnkirk|access-date=24 February 2018}} There was some coal found at Garnkirk.{{cite book|title=Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory for the whole of Scotland and of the Isle of Man ... to which are added, classified directories of ... Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, etc|date=1837|location=London|page=528|url=https://archive.org/stream/pigotcosnational1837dire#page/528/mode/2up/search/garnkirk|access-date=28 February 2018}} There was a substantial fire clay works at Garnkirk, north of Garnkirk Station, on the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway.{{cite web|title=Garnkirk|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1442.html|website=Gazetteer of Scotland|access-date=24 February 2018}} It opened around 1831;{{cite web|title=Garnkirk|url=http://www.monklands.co.uk/garnkirk/|website=Monklands Memories|access-date=24 February 2018}} their goods were sold around the world.{{cite book|last1=Burley|first1=S. W.|title=American enterprise. Burley's United States centennial gasetteer and guide|date=1876|publisher=S. W. Burley|location=Philadelphia|page=707|url=https://archive.org/stream/americanenterpri01burl/americanenterpri01burl#page/707/mode/1up/search/garnkirk|access-date=25 February 2018}} The works manufactured products including vases, flower-pots and crucibles.{{cite book|last1=Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy|title=The new statistical account of Scotland|date=1845|publisher=W. Blackwood and Sons|location=Edinburgh and London|page=402|url=https://archive.org/stream/newstatisticala16clergoog#page/n419/mode/2up/search/garnkirk|access-date=31 December 2017}} It shut in 1901.{{cite web|last1=Kidd|first1=Neil|title=Industries|url=http://www.chryston.org.uk/story/p11.htm|website=The Story of Chryston|access-date=24 February 2018}} Between 1897 and 1921 Garnkirk was the location of the Gartloch Distillery that produced grain whisky.{{cite web |url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/168359/gartloch-distillery|title=Gartloch Distillery |access-date=2018-02-24 |work=CANMORE |publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland}} It was sold as widely as America{{cite book|title=Pacific wine and spirit review|date=1895|publisher=R.M. Wood & Co.|location=San Francisco|page=39|edition=v.33 / Aug. 6, 1894 - Jan. 21, 1895|url=https://archive.org/stream/pacificwinespiri33sanfrich/pacificwinespiri33sanfrich#page/n120/mode/1up/search/garnkirk|access-date=24 February 2018}} and New Zealand.{{cite news|title=Page 24 Advertisements Column 3|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT18861203.2.36.3|access-date=24 February 2018|work=Volume XVIII|agency=New Zealand Tablet|issue=32|date=3 December 1886}}
Garnkirk Burn
The Garnkirk Burn rises to the west of Stepps.{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.8921&lon=-4.1547&layers=168&b=3|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=26 October 2017}} It then runs through the Garnkirk Glen{{cite web|title=Garnkirk Glen near the source of the Garnkirk Burn|url=https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php?zoom=16&lat=055.896940&lon=-004.142400|website=OpenStreetMap|access-date=28 February 2018}} and flows north-east to meet the Bothlin Burn. The Bothlin Burn escapes from Bishop Loch, south of Gartcosh. It is joined by the Garnkirk Burn east of Davidston farm, just north of the M80.{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.9147&lon=-4.1137&layers=168&b=3|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=26 October 2017}} The Bothlin is without a doubt the Luggie Water's major contributing stream.
File:Muirhead, Chryston and Moodiesburn from the air (geograph 5681671).jpg, Chryston and Moodiesburn from the air. Garnkirk was on the railway line at the bottom of the picture.]]
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