Dullatur

Dullatur ( Gaelic: Dubh Leitir ) is a village in the Scottish unitary authority of North Lanarkshire. It is located south of the Forth and Clyde canal, about three kilometers north of Cumbernauld. Falkirk is located 15 km north-east, 18 km south-west of Glasgow situated. In 1971 Dullatur recorded 161 inhabitants.

History

At the time of the Roman occupation of Britain led a road passing along the northern Antonine today Dullatur. In the local area are also two Roman camps were route. In the course of an archaeological investigation of the area, however, no significant findings were made ​​from the Roman period. However, a large piece of a green coating was found that could have come from a clan warehouse in the 14th century, when the fighters gathered in the area before the Battle of Bannockburn.

The village grew with the arrival of the railway in 1842. Dullatur received its own railway station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which provided an incentive for the settlement of rich merchants. For this reason, still affect numerous villas of this period the village. Among them are with Dunluce and Woodend two buildings by the architect Alexander Thomson, which are listed in the highest category A Scottish monument. The railway line is still used as Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line. The train station of Dullatur, however, was closed in the meantime replacement.