Drumchapel
Drumchapel |
| Drumchapel is part of the city of Glasgow, having been annexed from Dunbartonshire in 1938. It borders Bearsden (in East Dunbartonshire) and Clydebank (in West Dunbartonshire) and Knightswood and Yoker in Glasgow.
To ease the housing problem in Glasgow, a huge housing estate was built here in the 1950s - it is from this estate that is now most associated with Drumchapel. It was the largest housing estate in Europe at one time there were over 50,000 people living there. The name is from the gaelic: drum means ridge and chapel is from the gaelic chopuill meaning horse. Hence Drumchapel literally means 'the ridge of the horse'. Drumchapel was part of the parish of Kilpatrick, adminstered by Paisley Abbey. It was part of two ancient estates: Garscadden and Drumry. For the most part, the relations between these two estates were good, probably excepting the time of the Wars of Independence leading up to Bannockburn :- when Garscadden was owned by the pro-Bruce family, the Flemings, at variance with Drumry, owned by the pro-Edward family, the Livingstons. |
Up to North of the River Clyde |