Luggiebank, Cumbernauld
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Overview
Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld is a Scottish new town in North Lanarkshire. It was created in 1956 as a population overspill for Glasgow City. It is the eighth most populous settlement in Scotland and the largest in North Lanarkshire...
and is now essentially a suburb of the town. It is situated on what used to be the Striling Road from Lanark, but as a result of a by pass (B8039) the old road is now a cul de sac.
The village consists of around 30 houses and is essentially built around two streets, the older part of Stirling Road and newer houses on Blairlinn View. Other farms and houses in the surrounding area are deemed to be in Luggiebank. On the south bound side of Stirling Road the houses back onto Luggie Water. The associated glen
Glen
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped; or one with a watercourse running through such a valley. Whittow defines it as a "Scottish term for a deep valley in the Highlands" that is "narrower than a strath."...
is now a nature reserve managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust
Scottish Wildlife Trust
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The name comes from a cottage of that name which appears on the first Edition of the Ordnance Survey.
The name Luggie is a Scots word meaning a wooden bucket with handles. An extract from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1882
Gazetteer for Scotland
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describes The Luggie in less than glowing terms. However, there is also a poem written by David Grey
David Grey
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(1838–61) The Dear Old Toiling One, in which he fondly mentions the Luggie and apparently another poem of the same ilk http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ilk called 'The Luggie' or possibly 'Luggie-side'.
History
Ordnance Survey
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map http://www.old-maps.co.uk/IndexMapPage2.aspx. People even used to holiday in the village and there is a postcard looking south, showing the village possibly from the 1930s. The Luggie Bridge, just to the north of the village, is a fine stone arch http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedouglascampbellshow/3024084028 and it now forms part of the footway north out of the village.