Cumbernauld is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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27 Facts About Cumbernauld
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Many years Cumbernauld was chiefly populated around what is called The Village with the medieval castle a short walk away surrounded by its own park grounds.
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Cumbernauld was designated as the site for a New Town on 9 December 1955.
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Cumbernauld's economy is a mixture of some manufacturing, mainly on its industrial estates, as well as service industries in the town centre and in sites close to the M80.
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Cumbernauld was featured in Our World, the first live multinational multi-satellite television production.
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Cumbernauld's history stretches at least to Roman times, as Westerwood was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, the furthest and most northerly boundary of the Roman Empire.
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One of the most discussed Roman finds from Cumbernauld is a sandstone slab depicting Triton and a naked, kneeling captive.
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Cumbernauld has the only Roman altar still in the open air in Scotland: the Carrick Stone.
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Cumbernauld Castle was first built as a Norman-style motte and bailey castle.
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Cumbernauld seems to have been arrested by James and imprisoned briefly in Dalkeith Castle.
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Cumbernauld Castle was besieged and largely destroyed by Cromwell's General Monck in 1651.
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Cumbernauld was designated as a New Town in 1955, the third to be designated in Scotland.
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Cumbernauld is the clearest example of a modernist new town vision in the UK.
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Cumbernauld pioneered designs for underpasses and pedestrian footbridges as well as segregated footpaths.
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Residential structure of Cumbernauld is noteworthy in that there were no pedestrian crossings, i e zebra or pelican crossings; pedestrians originally traversed roads by bridge or underpass.
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Landscape scale conservation partnership led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, the Cumbernauld Living Landscape, operates in the town with the aim of enhancing, connecting and restoring the greenspaces and improving people's perceptions of and access to them.
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Cumbernauld is a two-time winner of the Carbuncle Awards in 2001 and 2005.
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Cumbernauld won the 2013 Beautiful Scotland Award for the best "Small City".
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In 2017 Cumbernauld was awarded the Garden for Life Biodiversity Award.
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Cumbernauld is home to Junior football side Cumbernauld United who play at Guy's Meadow.
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Town's rugby team, Cumbernauld RFC, were formed in 1970 and grew to have 3 senior men's teams and several junior teams.
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In terms of public transport, Cumbernauld has bus links to Glasgow, including the airport, Stirling, Falkirk, Dunfermline and St Andrews, which are operated by FirstGroup and Stagecoach.
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Cumbernauld Airport is primarily used for the training of fixed wing and rotary wing pilots, it has an aircraft maintenance facility.
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Cumbernauld FM is a community station broadcasting to the town of Cumbernauld and surrounding areas on 106.
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Cumbernauld has 11 council members out of 69 North Lanarkshire Councillors.
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