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[[File:Autumn colours, Kildrum (geograph 2240972).jpg|thumb|Autumn colours outside Sacred Heart Church, Kildrum]]
'''Kildrum''' was the first area to be constructed in [[Cumbernauld]] [[New towns in the United Kingdom#Scotland|new town]], North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for the workers at the [[Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs]] factory at Old Inns, the first factory in Cumbernauld New Town.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Osborn|first1=Frederic James|last2=Whittick|first2=Arnold|title=The New towns - The Answer to Megalopolis|date=1963|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=London|pages=312–321|url=https://archive.org/stream/newtowns00osbo#page/314/mode/2up/search/kildrum|accessdate=25 October 2017}}</ref>
The main road is in the shape of an arc with residential streets leading from it. Inside the arc are ex-corporation houses and there is better quality, mostly private, housing on the outside. The street names of Kildrum are taken from places associated with [[Robert Burns]].
Facilities include [[Cumbernauld High School]], primary school, special school, health centre, YMCA, four shops, hairdressers, chemist, three churches/chapels, Salvation Army.
Kildrum's history did not begin with the new town since as far back as 1 October 1310 Robert the Bruce wrote to [[Edward II of England]] from Kildrum<ref>{{cite web|title=Dumbarton Sheet XXVI.1 (Cumbernauld) 1864 map|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/index.cfm#zoom=14&lat=55.9535&lon=-3.9670&layers=7&b=1&point=55.9572,-3.9877|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=O.S.|accessdate=10 August 2016}}</ref> trying, unsuccessfully, to establish peace between Scotland and England.<ref>{{cite web|title=Letter from Robert the Bruce to Edward II reveals power struggle in the build-up to Bannockburn|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2013/june/headline_279405_en.html|website=University of Glasgow|accessdate=10 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch Map 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.9442&lon=-4.0004&layers=168&b=1|website=zoomable map with Bing transparency overlay|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> There was also a farm about which some records exist.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fairweather|first1=Iain|title=Kildrum|url=http://www.ourcumbernauld.org.uk/local-farms/kildrum/|website=Our Cumbernauld|accessdate=10 February 2018}}</ref>
The [[Cumbernauld town centre|Town Centre]] and [[Carbrain, Cumbernauld|Carbrain]] lie to the west of Kildrum. To the north is [[Seafar, Cumbernauld|Seafar]], to the east Cumbernauld Park and to the south Cumbernauld Glen.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Taylor|first1=Jessica|title=Cumbernauld: The Conception, Development and Realisation of a Post-war British New Town|date=2010|publisher=Edinburgh College of Art|location=Edinburgh|url=https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/1842/8226/1/Taylor2010_FULL.pdf#720|pages=625–674|accessdate=25 February 2017}}</ref>
== Streets and their facilities ==
[[File:Underpass, North Carbrain Road, Cumbernauld.jpg|thumb|Underpass with a view into Kildrum]]
''Kildrum Road'' - main road<br />
''Tarbolton Road''<br />
''Kyle Road'' - Sacred Heart Church<br />
''Campsie View''<br />
''Afton Road'' - shop and [[YMCA]]<br />
''Braehead Road'' - shop, hall and hairdresser - theatre nearby<br />
''Park Way''<br />
''Castle Way''<br />
''Meadow View''<br />
''Ainslie Road''<br />
''Forest View''<br />
''Glen View''<br />
''Burn View''<br />
''Maclehose Road''<br />
''Glencairn Road''<br />
''Moss Knowe''<br />
''Lamerton Road''<br />
''Clouden Road'' - [[Salvation Army]] and shop<br />
''Lochlea Road'' - Kildrum Health Centre<br />
''Mossgiel Road''<br />
''Ellisland Road'' - Kildrum Primary School<br />
''Doon Side''<br />
''Corbiston Way'' - shop<br />
''Kenmore Road'' - Kildrum Parish Church
[[File:Kildrum 1992 (geograph 3860771).jpg|thumb|View from the top of Stuart House in 1992, looking north-east over Kildrum]]
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