Westwood, East Kilbride

Westwood is a pre-designed neighbourhood of the Scottish new town East Kilbride. It takes its name from a former Secretary of State for Scotland, Joseph Westwood, who died in a car crash in the years preceding its naming. He took a key interest in the development of the early new towns, was partly behind East Kilbride's designation, and he appointed its development corporation. The name was officially announced on 23 August 1948.

The area was name-checked by one of its former inhabitants, Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, in the song "Somewhere In My Heart". Part of the song's lyrics proclaim "From Westwood to Hollywood, The one thing that's understood, Is that you can't buy time, But you can sell your soul, And the closest thing to heaven is rock and roll".