Stonehouse

History

File:United.Presbyterian.Church.Stonehouse.jpg|United Presbyterian Church File:Scene.near.Glen-Avon.Stonehouse.jpg|Scene near Glen-Avon File:Montage.falls.fair.Glassford.bridge.Stonehouse.jpg|Montage of scenes: a falls, the fair at Auld Stonehouse, and Glassford Bridge File:Free.Church.Stonehouse.jpg|Free Church File:Cross.and.King.Street.Stonehouse.jpg|Cross and King Street File:Cross.and.Irongate.Stonehouse.jpg|Cross and Trongate File:Churchyard.River.Avon.Stonehouse.jpg|Churchyard and River Avon File:Cam'Nethan.House.Stonehouse.jpg|Cam'Nethan House (Residence of General Lockhart) File:Bridges.Stonehouse.jpg|Bridges File:Avon.Cander.junction.Stonehouse.jpg|Junction of the Avon and Cander The village's oldest structure are the ruins of St Ninian's Church, which date from the 17th century and stand in an ancient graveyard on the edge of the village. The old village centre has several rows of late 18th century and early 19th century weavers' cottages, some of which have double windows which were originally intended to maximize the amount of light coming in, for weavers working on their looms. In 1973, Stonehouse was designated to become an addition to Scotland's new towns with the purpose of strengthening the output of public sector housing available to rehouse Glasgow's people from its unfit tenements, a modern urban design to alleviate overcrowding in and around Glasgow and to generate industrial development, similar to the towns of East Kilbride, Cumbernauld and Livingston. Stonehouse was added to the responsibilities of the East Kilbride Development Corporation. Following the West Central Scotland Plan of 1974 and the inception of Strathclyde Regional Council in 1975, regional planning strategy was refocused upon regeneration within Glasgow leading to the…