woodysdad
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Livingston owes it's name to Holland!This is true. There is a street called Leving Place.
Hundreds of years ago, a Dutch merchant called Von Leving happened upon a spot on the River Almond and decided it would be a good place for a trading post. He started up in business and it soon developed into a profitable (for him) wee market place. People settled and built homes there, and it became known as "Leving's Toun", which is where the name Livingston came from!
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I always thpought it was a relatively recent "New town"
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woodysdad
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Livingston Village goes back to the 16th Century.. The New Town was started in 1962, but the old village is still in the middle...much the same as Cumbernauld.
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Didn't know that, thanks for the history lesson, WD.
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BoB
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Learn somthing every day. 
Now where did Cumbernauld get its name?
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woodysdad
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Cumbernauld is interpreted from the Gaelic as "The meeting of the waters" - being a reference to the Luggie Water and the Red Burn which are close to the village.
Cumbernauld Village has a pre-mediaeval history, as of course does the Cumbernauld Estate of which the Cumbernauld House was the base (prior to this Cumbernauld Castle). The Estate was comprised of a large natural forest in which King James IV hunted for deer and the "wild" white cattle by invitation of its owners the Flemings, later given the hereditary title Earls of Wigtown. By 17th-18th century most of the Estate comprised tenanted farm holdings including Upper and Lower Abronhill, Carbrain, Kildrum, Hole, Tannoch, Seafar, Ravenswood, Eastfield, Palacerigg Greenfaulds, Forrest farms, Balloch and several more.
The original settlement is believed to have been started in Roman times under the shelter of the Antonine Wall. By the early Middle Ages the settlement must have grown to a respectable size to warrant the Comyns placing their chapel here. With the Flemings' decision to build their castle and make Cumbernauld their principal seat, the place would assume its present form which is the classical layout of a medieval Scottish town, with its principal street running from castle to church.
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Anybody that's been to Cumbernauld recently could be forgiven for thinking that it STILL IS a Roman ruin.
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BoB
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Thanks Woodysdad. 
NTFS, don't go to Cumbernauld for your hollidays!   
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woodysdad
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It's great what ye can find on T'Internet!
I remember Bill Torrance of Beechgrove Garden fame talking about Eccles cakes and saying did they have anything to do with Eccles in Lancashire? And was Eccles connected to Ecclesmachan in West Lothian?
So I phoned him, and said yes it was connected, as the Eccles meant Ecclesiastic..to to with the Church and thae Ecclesmachan meant "Church of St Machan". OK says he, what about Ecclefechan?? Don't tell me there was a St Fechan! Google it..he didnae believe it either!!
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BoB
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Google says (Shortened) | Quote: | | Ecclefechan, St Fechan's Church. Alternative Names: Johnstone Churchyard; St Feochan's Church |
Nothing to do with yersel is it that churchyard?
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| bobaroo wrote: | Thanks Woodysdad.
NTFS, don't go to Cumbernauld for your hollidays! |
Trust me, i wouldn't go near the place if you paid me,
remember, i used to live in Motherwell, which as you know isn't too far away from the dump.
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MadWelshie
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Are there any other interesting dumps in Scotland
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Loads of them, if i'm honest about it.
The afore. mentioned Motherwell is one of them,
but i won't mention them as i might want to go back some day.
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woodysdad
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According to an article in the Scotsman today, Cumbernauld in Norwegian means "Concrete Sea Slug"!!
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