Erosion along the line of a geological fault known as the Campsie Fault has left tiers of rock representing some 30 lava flows which date from the Carboniferous period.
The headwaters of the River Kelvin, which flows through the west end of Glasgow, rise in the Campsie Fells.
Campsie consists of two hills, namely, the Fells on the North and the South Brae, and of the strath lying between them, and or which the general direction is east and west.
Campsie glens furnish almost as many good plants as any locality within ten miles of the city and some are found here which have not been described elsewhere in the neighbourhood.
That range of hills which runs along the north side of the Strath, called the CampsieFells, consists chiefly of large tabular masses of trap, the divisions in which are frequently indicated by the springs of water which issue from them, and which trace their course in deep furrows on the brow of the hill.
What is now the suburb of Campsie was a gently sloping area from the ridge which is now Canterbury Road to Cooks River on the east and north, and a steeper slope to Cup and Saucer Creek on the south.
Campsie Public School opened in temporary premises in the Kia-Ora Hall on 20th July, 1908 and the first permanent building was erected in 1909.
Campsie's own newspaper, "The Campsie News", was established in 1939, replacing another district paper "The Alert" founded on 1907.
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