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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CAMBUSLANG [parish] | Cambuslang Parish | Valuation Roll Statistical Account Forests Map Revd. J.S.Johnstone Old Statistical Account New Statistical Account Chalmer's Caledonia Sheriff's Returns County Map |
010; 011 | "In the last Statistical Report it is stated that this parish was anciently called Drumsargard; but this appears to be a mistake. In the seventeenth century, the name of the barony of Drumsharg or Drumsargard, which includes the larger portion of the parish, was changed to Cambuslang, the name the parish always bore. Lying at the north-west extremity of the great trough of the Clyde, near the western boundary of the district of Clydesdale, the greater part of the parish exhibits a low undulating surface, and forms part of the great vale on which the City of Glasgow stands." New Statistical Account. "The parish is bounded on the North by Old Monkland; on the South by East Kilbryde; East, by Blantyre; and on the west by Rutherglen. Dechmont Hill rises from an altitude of 600 feet, and commands an extensive and varied prospect, coal abounds in this district, where it has been wrought for upwards of 800 years. A strata of limestone usually called Cambuslang Marble, is found in some of the coal pits at the depth of 200 feet." Gazetteer. Cambuslang & Kirkhill villages are the principal ones in the Parish. There are several smaller villages. The Northern Calder water forms the eastern boundary of the Parish. "The parish of Cambuslang derived its singular name from the Celtic Cambus-lain , signifying the bending water-bank or the bank on the bend of the water". Cam in the British and Gaelic signifies bending, bowed; and usg or uisg means water, From these vocables was formed the Celtic word camus, which applied to the bend or curve of any water, either of a stream, a lake or of the sea. Camus, thus applied, appears in a number of names in the topography of Scotland; and in the Scots-Saxon districts it has uniformly obtained the name Cambus; as Cambus-lang." Chalmers Caledonia Vol 3-p 694 There is not any portion of the Parish of Cambuslang detached within any other Parish, nor is there any portion of any other Parish contained within the bounds of this Parish. |
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