page_title: Cumbernauld
section_title: Areas of the town
hierarchical_section_title: Cumbernauld / Areas of the town
caption_attribution_description: English: Stag This wire constructed stag can be found at the entrance to an Industrial Estate on Blairlinn Road, Cumbernauld.
context_page_description: Cumbernauld is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the ninth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated town in north Lanarkshire, positioned in the centre of Scotland's Central Belt. Geographically, Cumbernauld sits between east and west, being on the Scottish watershed between the Forth and the Clyde; however, it is culturally far more weighted towards Glasgow and the New Town's planners thought to fill 80% of its houses from Scotland's largest city to reduce housing pressure there.
  Cumbernauld was marked by the Romans in antiquity. Traces of this are still visible today for example at Westerwood and, less conspicuously, north of the M80 where the legionaries surfaced what would later be called the Auld Cley Road. This is acknowledged in Cumbernauld Community Park, also site of Scotland's only visible open-air Roman altar, in the shadow of the imposing Carrickstone Water Tower.
  For many years Cumbernauld was chiefly populated around what is now called The Village with the medieval castle a short walk away surrounded by its own park grounds.
context_section_description: Many of Cumbernauld's residential areas retain the names of previous farms in their vicinity.
  Abronhill
  Auchenkilns
  Balloch
  Blackwood
  Blairlinn
  Carbrain
  Carrickstone
  Condorrat
  Craigmarloch
  Cumbernauld Village
  Eastfield
  Greenfaulds
  Kildrum
  Lenziemill
  Luggiebank
  Ravenswood
  Seafar
  Smithstone
  Wardpark
  Westerwood
  Westfield
  Whitelees
caption: Stag – entrance to Blairlinn Industrial Estate
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