Greenhills is an area within the Scottish new town of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire in Greater Glasgow.
The primary motivation to create the area relied on intense pressure to accommodate a far higher level of Glasgow-region overspill.
[4] The streets mainly explore residential naming themes of trees, shrubs, ducks, waders, and Scottish golf courses.
[5] However, this suggestion mooted in the 2000s was purely speculation with some serious critical issues attached to it, and some other evidence points to different origins such as a possible 'moothill'.
Until June 2005, Greenhills was served by two secondary schools, Ballerup ( which adjoined farmland to the south) and St Andrews, both completed in 1978.