Rutherglen

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For the town in Australia named after Rutherglen, see Rutherglen, Victoria.

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Rutherglen (said: Rhu-ther-glehn) comes from the Gaelic An Ruadh Ghleann - "the red valley". Rutherglen is a town located within the south-eastern suburbs of the city of Glasgow, Scotland near the town of Cambuslang. In 1975, it lost its own local council and administratively became part of the city of Glasgow. In 1996 it was reallocated to the South Lanarkshire council area.

Rutherglen Town Hall

The town was famous until around 1910 for its annual horse fairs. It was also a centre of heavy industry, having a long coal mining tradition which died out by 1950, and also being home to the infamous White's chemical works up until the 1960s, which was responsible for the huge swathes of the area from southern Glasgow across to the town of Cambuslang being polluted with chromium waste. Rutherglen, along with most of the towns encircling the city, are now dormitory suburbs of Glasgow.

Clyde Football Club used to play in the area before moving to the former new town of Cumbernauld. The immediate area could be considered the cradle of Scottish football, with Hampden Park, the national stadium and home to Scotland's oldest football club Queen's Park F.C. being close by as well as Cathkin Park, the home of the defunct Third Lanark F.C. and not far to the north is Celtic Park, the home of Celtic F.C. All of which (apart from Clyde's ground) are located in the City of Glasgow.

The local newspaper is the Rutherglen Reformer.

Parliamentary burgh and constituencies

Rutherglen was a parliamentary burgh represented in the U.K. Parliament as a component of Glasgow Burghs constituency from 1708 to 1832, and as a component of Kilmarnock Burghs from 1832 to 1918. In 1918, the Rutherglen constituency was created, which became Rutherglen Glasgow in 1983.

In 1999, The Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen was created, with the same boundaries as the U.K. parliamentary constituency.

In 2005, Scottish constituencies for the U.K parliament were mostly replaced with new constituencies, and Rutherglen is now within the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. The Scottish Parliament constituencies remain unaltered.

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