Gartloch () is a residential village in

Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...

, Scotland. Outwith the city's urban area (the closest contiguous district being

Easterhouse Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, east of the Glasgow city centre, city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. The area is on high ground north of the Ri ...

), it is very close to the boundary with

North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the north-east of the Glasgow City council area and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs, commuter towns, and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk (co ...

, south of

Garnkirk Garnkirk is a settlement in North Lanarkshire, located a mile (1.5 km) southwest of Muirhead, North Lanarkshire, Muirhead. It is located 10 km northeast of Glasgow's city centre and 23 km southwest of Falkirk. Garnkirk is connecte ...

and west of

Gartcosh Gartcosh () is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village lies about east of Glasgow, and about northwest of the town of Coatbridge. According to a 2012 estimate, the population of Gartcosh was 2,130 people. Expansion of the village ...

. To the south is Bishop Loch, a nature reserve and the body of water referred to in the village name, which forms part of the

Seven Lochs Wetland Park The Seven Lochs Wetland Park is an urban park in Scotland. It comprises nearly 20 km2 of land and water between Glasgow and Coatbridge. Scope of Project Summary of the project A Masterplan to create the initial scope of the project w ...

Bishop Loch and Gartloch Hospital - geograph

Much of the new village was created by the renovation of several of the buildings that made up

Gartloch Hospital Gartloch Hospital was a mental health facility located on Gartloch Road near the village of Gartcosh, Scotland. It opened in 1896 and was officially closed in 1996. It was managed by NHS Greater Glasgow. History In January 1889 the City of Gla ...

(also known as Gartloch Asylum) which opened in 1896 and closed in 1996. New houses have also been built in the surrounding area. Gartloch is within driving distance – about – from the

Glasgow Fort Glasgow Fort is a large Out-of-town shopping centres in the United Kingdom, out-of-town shopping and leisure park in Glasgow, Scotland, just off Junction 10 of the M8 motorway (Scotland), M8 motorway which runs to the south, surrounded by the re ...

cinema and

retail park A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries. Retail parks form a key aspect of European retail geographies, alongside indoor shopping centres, ...

complex on the periphery of the Glasgow urban area at

Garthamlock Garthamlock (from the Gaelic "Gart Thamhlachd"-burial enclosure) is a suburb in the north-east of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. Provanhall is the nearest neighbourhood to the east; Craigend is directly t ...

next to Junction 10 of the M8 motorway, and is around the same distance in the opposite direction from Junction 2A of the

M73 motorway The M73 is a motorway in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is long and connects the M74 motorway with the M80 motorway, providing an eastern bypass for Glasgow. The short stretch between junctions 1 and 2 is part of unsigned inte ...

and

Gartcosh railway station Gartcosh railway station serves the village of Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The railway station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the Cumbernauld Line, northeast of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) station. The station was ...

History

The etymology of the name is "loch enclosure". Several old documents show Gartloch with various spellings including on maps by

Timothy Pont Reverend Timothy Pont () was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual surve ...

, Charles Ross, and

William Roy Major-General William Roy (4 May 17261 July 1790) was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Gr ...

. Between 1897 and 1921, Garnkirk was the location of the Gartloch Distillery that produced grain whisky.

References

External links

Gartloch Community Council

Gartloch page on Monklands Online
has a rare image of hospital with steeples intact
Gartloch Village
- Developer's website (sales) with video concept of redeveloped village Villages in Glasgow (council area) {{Glasgow-geo-stub