Rutherglen
For the town in Australia named after Rutherglen, see Rutherglen, Victoria.Rutherglen (said: Rhu-ther-glehn) comes from the
Gaelic An Ruadh Ghleann - "the red valley". Rutherglen is a town located within the south-eastern suburbs of the city of
Glasgow,
Scotland near the town of
Cambuslang. In
1975, it lost its own local council and administratively became part of the city of
Glasgow. In
1996 it was reallocated to the
South Lanarkshire council area.
The town was famous until around
1910 for its annual
horse fairs. It was also a centre of
heavy industry, having a long
coal mining tradition which died out by
1950, and also being home to the infamous
White's chemical works up until the
1960s, which was responsible for the huge swathes of the area from southern Glasgow across to the town of
Cambuslang being polluted with
chromium waste. Rutherglen, along with most of the towns encircling the city, are now dormitory
suburbs of Glasgow.
Clyde Football Club used to play in the area before moving to the former
new town of
Cumbernauld. The immediate area could be considered the cradle of
Scottish football, with
Hampden Park, the
national stadium and home to Scotland's oldest football club
Queen's Park F.C. being close by as well as
Cathkin Park, the home of the defunct
Third Lanark F.C. and not far to the north is
Celtic Park, the home of
Celtic F.C. All of which (apart from Clyde's ground) are located in the City of Glasgow.
The local newspaper is the Rutherglen Reformer.
Rutherglen was a
parliamentary burgh represented in the
U.K. Parliament as a component of
Glasgow Burghs constituency from 1708 to 1832, and as a component of
Kilmarnock Burghs from 1832 to 1918. In 1918, the
Rutherglen constituency was created, which became
Rutherglen Glasgow in 1983.
In 1999, The
Scottish Parliamentary constituency of
Glasgow Rutherglen was created, with the same boundaries as the U.K. parliamentary constituency.
In 2005, Scottish constituencies for the U.K parliament were mostly replaced with new constituencies, and Rutherglen is now within the
Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. The
Scottish Parliament constituencies remain unaltered.
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Rutherglen Community Council*
Rutherglen Academy Historic Pictures*
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