Calderwood (surname)

The documents regarding the ancient lands of Calderwood and family are scarce, but do suggest that the name descends from a small village or possibly a defended iron-age town (oppidum) as referred to in marriage charters.

Anecdotally in the work 'History of Rutherglen & East Kilbride, 1793, he describes an old story handed down by country folk bearing the name of Calderwood at that time in the Shire of Ayr.

These take the form of early references in the British Library to such a marriage, although no document mentioning Calderwood and Mearns Barony are known.

[6] This building may have occupied the site of an earlier defensive structure, as Calderwood is mentioned in the 1296 Ragman's Roll[7] and the promontory is the only natural place in the gorge which lends itself to defence, although its visual prospect is greatly limited.

The manor was sold circa 1904 to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, then a wing of the UK Government, private ownership, and finally the East Kilbride Development Corporation, who demolished the last traces of the Victorian building in 1951.