Bellshill

Also known as Bellshill, North Lanarkshire

Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, Hamilton to the southwest, Viewpark to the west, Holytown to the east and Coatbridge to the north.

Key facts

UK place.country: Scotland
UK place.type: Town
UK place.official_name: Bellshill
UK place.gaelic_name: Cnoc a' Chluig
UK place.scots_name: Bellshull
UK place.population_ref: ()
UK place.os_grid_reference: NS730575
UK place.map_type: Scotland
UK place.unitary_scotland: North Lanarkshire
UK place.lieutenancy_scotland: Lanarkshire
UK place.constituency_westminster: Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill and Motherwell and Wishaw
UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament: Uddingston and Bellshill
UK place.post_town: BELLSHILL
UK place.postcode_district: ML4
UK place.postcode_area: ML
UK place.dial_code: 01698
UK place.edinburgh_distance: ENE
UK place.london_distance: SSE

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: town
Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Lanarkshire
Population: 20290
Time zone: UTC±00:00
Official website: www.bellshillcab.org.uk
Image: St Andrew s Church.jpg
Dialing code: 01698

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Commons category: Bellshill
topic's main category: Category:Bellshill
category for people born here: Category:Births in Bellshill
category of associated people: Category:People from Bellshill
historic county: Lanarkshire
P8168: Shadrinsk
P12749: Selma Ergeç
postal code: ML4

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Encyclopedic overview

17 sections

Contents

History
Early and establishment
Economic expansion
Population increase
Contemporary history
Education
Demography
Religion
Transport
Culture
Music and entertainment
Sport
Notable people
Sportspeople
Bands from Bellshill
References
External links

The town of Bellshill (including the villages of Orbiston and Mossend) has a population of about 20,650. From 1996 to 2016, it was considered to be part of the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area. Since then it has been counted as part of a continuous suburban settlement anchored by Motherwell, with a total population of around 125,000.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bellshill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.