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County of Lanark. Parish of East Kilbride
East Kilbride --- Old Statistical Account
East Kilbride --- New Statistical Account
East Kilbride --- Fullarton's Gazetteer
East Kilbride --- Chalmer's Caledonia
East Kilbride --- Origines Parochials Scotiae
Kilbride Ph. [Parish] --- Sheriff's Returns
Kilbryde Ph. [Parish] --- County Maps
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" The present parish of Kilbride, which is sometimes called East Kilbride, to distinguish it from West Kilbride, in Ayrshire, comprehends the parishes of Kilbride and Torrans. The old parish of Torrans obtained its name from the place where the church stood; and that places of location acquired its name from a small earthern mount, which was called the Tor, in the vicinity of the mansion house, and the old church of Torrans. " The circumference of the parish is very irregular and undulating in its outline. In other respects, the shape is that of a sand glass, the breadth in the northern and southern portions is considerable, while it is very much diminished towards the centre. A line drawn across the northern half of the sand glass through its centre from east to west, would give a breadth of very nearly five miles. At one part of the southern half the distance is about five miles from a point on the east, at which a bye-road, leading from the direct Strathavon and Kilbride towards a place called Blackburn crosses the Powmillan rivulet , to the point on the west where the road from Alderstocks to Eaglesham enters the parish of Eaglesham. In the centre of the parish, at the narrowest part, the breadth is not so much as two miles and a half - . From the most southern point beyond Browncastle to the most northern already mentioned, the distance is nine miles and three quarters, being the extreme length of the Parish. - East Kilbride is in the middle ward of Lanarkshire and is bounded on the north by the parish of Carmunnock , and Cambuslang; on the east by Blantyre, Glassford and Avondale ; on the south by Avondale and Loudon; and on the west by Loudon, Eaglesham, and Carmunnock -.
Extract from Chalmer's Caledonia