Overview of Bellshill

Situated 9 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Glasgow, to the north of the South Calder Water, the suburb of Bellshill includes the neighbourhoods of Orbiston, Hattonrig, Mossend and Milnwood. Formerly a weaving village, Bellshill developed as a mining town with the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th Century. Many of its sandstone buildings date from the late-Victorian era with the notable exception of the parish church (1762). Nearby are Strathclyde Country Park, Strathclyde Business Park, the Eurocentral industrial estate and a railway terminal for Channel Tunnel traffic opened in 1994.