page_title: Glenboig
section_title: Glenboig today
hierarchical_section_title: Glenboig / Glenboig today
caption_attribution_description: English: Garnqueen Loch
context_page_description: Glenboig is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland lying north of Coatbridge and to the south east of Kirkintilloch and is approximately 10 miles from Glasgow City Centre. According to a 2012 estimate, the population of Glenboig was 2780.
  Historically the settlement formed the south eastern extremity of the ancient Gaelic province of the Lennox which lay roughly within the former county of Dunbartonshire. The etymology of the name is uncertain but may mean "boggy or soft glen". Some online maps refer to the area as Marnock but locals call the area Glenboig.
  Glenboig's main industry was fireclay and Glenboig's name was known across the world.
context_section_description: In recent years the village has grown, with the addition of two new Redrow and  Barrat housing estates in the early to mid part of the 2000s. The village used to have two pubs - 'The Big Shop' and 'The Village Inn' formerly known as 'The Garnqueen' (after the neighbouring Loch) but colloquially among locals known as 'The Wee Shop' which closed circa 2009, and subsequently, became derelict.
  Glenboig also has a post office, hair salon, beauty salon, newsagents, a Chinese food takeaway, Indian food takeaway, a fish and chip shop, and a Londis store.
  Within the community there are many small businesses including a flower arrangers, architectural design service and mortgage brokers and professional tree surgeons.
  In 2015, a new road was authorised between Glenboig and Gartcosh on the other side of the M73 motorway, as part of a 'community growth area' expansion involving new business units (alongside the existing Police Scotland Scottish Crime Campus facility) and 3000 houses across the development zone, also encompassing land near the village of Mount Ellen north of Gartcosh.
caption: Garnqueen Loch
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