Queenzieburn
Sign in to saveQueenzieburn () is a small settlement in the historic county of Stirlingshire and the Council Area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its estimated population is 520. It is located near the town of Kilsyth and has a small industrial estate. The village has one school called Chapelgreen Primary. Senior pupils usually attend Kilsyth Academy.
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- Locality
- Queenzieburn
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 520
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 520
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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Queenzieburn () is a small settlement in the historic county of Stirlingshire and the Council Area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its estimated population is 520. It is located near the town of Kilsyth and has a small industrial estate. The village has one school called Chapelgreen Primary. Senior pupils usually attend Kilsyth Academy.
==Etymology== Queenzieburn is pronounced . This is due to the original Scots spelling, Queenȝieburn, containing the letter yogh, which was later erroneously confused with the tailed z. The meaning may be "stream, of the wedge place".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Queenzieburn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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