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Airdrie: Town
built 613 days ago
Today, Airdrie is a large town and encompasses the former villages of Clarkston and Rawyards. It has an Arts Centre, library, museum, two railway stations (with frequent electric trains to Glasgow), an open air market, public baths, a sports centre, a modern shopping centre, 16 churches, many public parks, a golf course and five industrial estates.
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Airdrie's name is derived from the Gaelic, airde ruigh, which means 'high pasture'. It is situated between Glasgow and Edinburgh, in Lanarkshire. In the 1850s it was a post and market town and a Parliamentary Burgh in the parish of New Monkland. Its population in 1851 was 14,435, an increase of almost 8,000 on the 1831 census. This enormous growth was due not to high birth rate, but to an influx of residents predominantly from Ireland, but ... from the Scottish Highlands. This followed the potato famine of the mid-1840s and also reflected the change from cottage industry to heavy industry in the area.
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Around the mid 1800s, several local newspapers began appearing and notably the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser, which is still the most popular local paper today. Also at this time, football and cricket began to emerge as popular sports. Owing to the formation of the Football under Association rules and through this beginning, Excelsior (the local football team until then) became Airdrieonians FC in 1878. Race meetings were ... held in the town (1851 - 1870) but this land became the golf course for the newly formed Airdrie Golf Club in 1877 (which later moved site to and Glenmavis in 1884).
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Part of the reason for this prosperity was that Airdrie had changed from being a rural, agricultural town to a centre of industry through its exploitation of the surrounding ironstone and coal beds. Its trade ... benefited from being situated on the Monkland Canal and on the new North British Railway.
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