Cambuslang is located just south of the River Clyde and about six miles southeast of the centre of Glasgow.
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20 Facts About Cambuslang
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The religious movements of the 18th century, including the Cambuslang Wark, were directly linked to similar movements in North America.
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Cambuslang benefited at all times from its closeness to the burgeoning city of Glasgow, brought closer in the 18th century by a turnpike road then, in the 19th century, by a railway.
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Cambuslang is in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West Constituency for elections to the House of Commons at Westminster.
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Cambuslang was originally in the Glasgow Rutherglen Constituency for the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
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Cambuslang is located on a lengthy bend on the River Clyde, south-east of Glasgow.
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Cambuslang has an interesting range of churches, public buildings, schools, industrial and commercial buildings.
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Cambuslang Park spans 27 acres encompassing the contrast of open parkland and the Borgie Glen, which is a steep tree-lined ravine, containing a complex network of pathways.
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Some parts of Cambuslang are within the catchment area of Stonelaw High School, which is situated in Rutherglen, the adjoining town.
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Cambuslang College of the Building Trades was a specialist college established in the mid-twentieth century but it gradually expanded to teach other trades and academic subjects.
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In 2008, the Cambuslang campus closed and all South Lanarkshire College facilities were moved to a new, custom-built campus in East Kilbride.
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Cambuslang is the patron saint of Cambuslang, where there is a modern primary school named after him.
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Cambuslang was a Celtic saint – previously, a Prince of Glamorgan – who brought succour to the native Christians against the invading Saxons.
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Just before the Reformation, a wealthy Cambuslang notable expressed in his will a desire to be interred "with the ashes of St Cadoc", in the Parish Kirk.
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Cambuslang had been Dean of the Chapel at Glasgow University, when the Rector was Edmund Burke and the professors included the philosopher Thomas Reid.
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Cambuslang was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1795.
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Cambuslang wrote the entry for Cambuslang in the First Statistical Account of Scotland.
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The cool, objective account in his report of the Cambuslang Wark remains the prime historical source for that event.
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Cambuslang is buried in the Old Parish Church kirkyard, just inside the gate.
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