The Village, East Kilbride

'The Village' is the modern but long-established and formal name for the oldest known nucleus of settlement in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This 'old town' component was partially preserved and is distinguished in character from the large 'new town' which surrounds it. It serves as the facilities and retail nucleus at the heart of the pre-planned new-town neighbourhood of 'Mains', whose Modernist housing components were developed around the settlement's periphery and partly within it. These modern developments, spread across a broad area, were later distinguished in two halves separated by West Mains Road; West Mains in the west, and East Mains in the east, with most of the old village falling within the latter zone.

The historic core of the old village is designated as a historic and architectural Conservation Area, observed under the planning regulations of South Lanarkshire Council.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.