Calderwood, East Kilbride
Calderwood is divided from the East Mains and Village areas to the west by the bypass – there are no direct road-traffic links, only two underpasses beneath the road and a footbridge over it.
The area includes Hunter House Museum at Long Calderwood Farmhouse, once the home of the 18th-century medical and zoological pioneers William and John, who were famous anatomists.
[5] The building and estate had belonged to the Hunter family since the 17th century, when it relocated from nearer to East Kilbride Kirkton Park.
This was widely praised as a picturesque and romantic attraction in the 18th and 19th centuries, and by the early 1900s recognised as a renowned beauty spot in the West of Scotland.
[11] The Calderwood area was sketched by the 18th-century artist Paul Sandby, and visited several times by British and foreign aristocracy, including Princess Mary Adelaide and the Crown Prince of Denmark.
[38] The campaign to save the village reached cabinet level in the House of Commons and gained national publicity, mostly due through Judith Hart MP and Fred S.
[45][46] The efforts to restore the village and the Development Corporation's publicity led to an unveiling of the show cottage by the Marchioness of Bute, which received national press coverage.
[50] The advances by Sir William sufficed for Maxwellton School to be cited and studied several times as an issue in the history of education in Scotland.
[53][54] The Calderwood area has the John Wright Sports Centre, named after a prominent 1960s new-town provost and offering a full-length athletics track opened in 1972.
[60][61] The original housing in the area (each with plumbing and electricity and separate bathrooms and kitchens – a noted improvement for residents used to overcrowded, crumbling inner-city city slums) followed a similar pattern to other parts of the town:[1] individual dwellings were mainly in short terraced rows facing onto streets, or less commonly with an access road and parking area skirting the houses, accessed by footpaths and sometimes with a communal green space.
