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Encyclopedia > Carmunnock

Carmunnock is conservation village within the City of Glasgow boundary.


This ancient settlement which is associated with the early Christian missionary Saint Cadoc, has a medieval street plan set within the lands of an estate held by Lord Hamilton until 1700 and then the Stuarts of Castlemilk.


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  • Ordnance Survey Map (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=260000&Y=657500&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=349&multimap.y=197)

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GENUKI: Lanarkshire - Carmunnock (408 words)
Indexes for the 1851 Census of Carmunnock are available on microfiche.
Carmunnock is in the presbytery of Glasgow and synod of Glasgow and Ayr.....
Carmunnock today is a Preservation Village - which means that what remains of the old village is protected.
Carmunnock: A model suburban Village and Parish (275 words)
CARMUNNOCK is a pleasant little village, with some score or so of houses, situated at the western extremity of the Cathkin hills, about five miles south of Glasgow Cross.
In the Statistical Account of Carmunnock published about 1840, there is a fact stated which must fill with envy the assessment-crushed unfortunates of our city parishes.
There has hitherto been no levy for poor-rates, and the worthy minister, with justifiable complacency, expresses his belief that such a thing as a compulsory assessment for the support of the poor is not at all likely ever to be required.
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