Шотландиядағы Милнгейви қаласы

Town in Scotland

Milngavie (/audio=Milngavie. ogg//m//ʌ//l/'/ɡ//aɪ/ mulGHY; Muileann Ghaidh) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and a suburb of Glasgow. It is on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow, and about from Glasgow city centre. It neighbours Bearsden. Milngavie is a commuter town, with much of its working population travelling to Glasgow to work or study. The town is served by Milngavie railway station on the North Clyde Line of the SPT rail network, which links it to Central Glasgow. In 2018 the Scottish Government published statistics for the town showing that the population increased to 13,537 in 6,062 households. The town is also a popular retirement location, with a high number of elderly people living there. The Milngavie and Bearsden Herald, owned by Johnston Press, is a weekly newspaper that covers local events from the schools, town halls, community and government in the area. The paper was established in 1901 and is printed every Wednesday, to be sold on Thursdays. The town is the start point of the West Highland Way long distance footpath which runs northwards for to the town of Fort William. A granite obelisk in the town centre marks the official starting point of the footpath.

Milngavie's name is of Gaelic origin, and may mean either "windmill" (muileann gaoithe) or "windy hill" (meall na gaoithe). It is sometimes explained as "Davie's mill" (muileann Dhàibhidh), but this is the result of confusion with an unrelated place in nearby Strathblane called Milndavie. Some remnants of this industry remain today on the Cloberfield Industrial Estate. The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains. Stone built villas and semi detached houses were constructed for wealthy citizens to the east of the town centre and around Tannoch Loch when commuting to Glasgow was made possible by the opening of the railway which reached the town in 1863. After World War II a local authority housing scheme was built to the west of the town centre, housing many people relocated from Clydebank which had been badly bombed. The town grew with the addition of private speculative housing developments of bungalows and semi detached homes at South Mains to the south of the town centre and around Clober, to the west, in the 1950s and 1960s. The town was historically served by routes 13 and 14 of the extensive Glasgow tramway system. Tramway services in Milngavie were withdrawn in 1956 and the entire system was dismantled by September 1962. The Fairways estate was built, starting in 1977 and continued into the 1980s. The town centre was redeveloped to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety. The central commercial streets were pedestrianised starting in 1974 and many buildings were replaced. A superstore was opened on the fringes of the town centre in the 1990s. In 2008, residents launched a "tongue in cheek" campaign to bring the Olympic games to Milngavie in 2020. Today the town is primarily a dormitory town for the nearby city of Glasgow.

Milngavie, originally in Stirlingshire, was in an area that became an exclave of Dunbartonshire on the orders of King David II (1324–1371). In 1875, whilst remaining part of Dunbartonshire, it became a police burgh under the jurisdiction of the Stirlingshire constabulary and retained burgh status for 100 years until 1975 when it was absorbed into the newly created Strathclyde Region. Milngavie is located to the north of the neighbouring town of Bearsden. Although the two are in close proximity, the social histories of these two towns differ significantly. Bearsden grew almost exclusively as a dormitory town of Glasgow for the wealthy and professional classes. In that sense both towns now fulfil a similar role. The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before Scottish Local Government reorganisation in the 1990s re integrated them with the towns of Kirkintilloch and Bishopbriggs, to form the East Dunbartonshire administrative area. In 2014, businesses in Milngavie voted in favour of becoming a Business Improvement District (BID) to work with East Dunbartonshire Council and community groups to improve the town and commercial viability of the central pedestrianised business area.

Little remains of the pre nineteenth century village other than the Corbie Ha' meeting hall, Cross Keys Public House, although now renovated and renamed, and the Gavin's Mill water mill on the Allander Water along with Barloch House and Barloch Farm. There are a few good examples of nineteenth century stone villas along the Station Road as well as the well preserved nineteenth century railway station. Many interesting Victorian houses around the Tannoch Conservation Area show Scottish cottage, Scottish Baronial, Classical architecture and Gothic influences. The town centre and Strathblane Road have remaining Victorian shop/tenement buildings and a few Arts and crafts influenced commercial buildings. Craigmillar Avenue and the area around Baldernock Road have some large Arts and Crafts and Glasgow Style influenced houses. The bulk of the housing stock is twentieth century, showing Scottish vernacular influences such as harling or rough casting, and, occasionally, more traditionally English elements like black and white timber paneled dormer windows and gables. The public sheltered housing projects of the 1970s and 1980s are interesting for their attempts to use traditional local materials like grey rough cast and slate plus interesting rounded walls and pitched roofs. The most recent development is characterised by some interesting one off conversions and extensions to Victorian properties; new housing by developers that often follows designs based on the brick architecture of the South of England; and contemporary steel framed commercial and leisure buildings. The Milngavie reservoir is visited by tourists and walkers. The reservoir is made up of the Craigmaddie and Mugdock reservoirs and was opened in 1859 by Queen Victoria. It is the main supplier of water to the city of Glasgow and can hold up to of water. The war memorial is by George Henry Paulin. The Auld Wives' Lifts, an interesting natural rock feature, is located on Craigmaddie Muir to the north east of Milngavie.