Chapelhall is a village outside the town of Airdrie

Airdrie, North Lanarkshire

Airdrie is a town within North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau roughly 400 ft above sea level, and is approximately 12 miles east of Glasgow city centre. Airdrie forms part of a conurbation with its neighbour Coatbridge, in the former district known as the Monklands. As of 2006,...

 in North Lanarkshire

North Lanarkshire

North Lanarkshire is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. It borders onto the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains much of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also borders Stirling, Falkirk, East Dunbartonshire, West Lothian and South Lanarkshire...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. However, with house building this distinction between Airdrie and Chapelhall is being eroded. Established as a small mining village in the 19th century it now has population of around 6,000 today.
Chapelhall is well situated just off the M8 motorway 13 miles east of Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 city centre and around 33 miles west of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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Chapelhall is also near to many of Lanarkshires main towns,(Airdrie town centre via roads: 3 miles), Bellshill 4 miles, Coatbridge 5 miles, Motherwell 5 miles,
Hamilton 7 miles and Cumbernauld 8 miles.
The Eurocentral

Eurocentral

Eurocentral is one of the largest industrial estates in Scotland situated on the edge of Holytown and Mossend, North Lanarkshire, just off the A8/M8 motorway,...

 freight village/industrial estate is just a mile or so away and employs people from around Lanarkshire
Glasgow and West lothian.The rail-freight village links with Grangemouth docks 28 miles away, (England to the south and beyond to
mainland Europe).

Chapelhall lies on the opposite side of the North Calder Water

North Calder Water

The North Calder Water is a river in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It flows for 12 miles from the Black Loch to the River Clyde at Daldowie south-east of Glasgow....

 from Calderbank

Calderbank

Calderbank is a village outside the town of Airdrie North Lanarkshire, Scotland, The village lies 13 miles east of Glasgow city centre and around 34 miles west of Edinburgh.Other major towns include Coatbridge 4 miles, Bellshill 4 miles and Motherwell 5 miles.-Etymology:The village's name is of a...

 and has very similar history. Iron

Iron

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 working and coal mining

Coal mining

The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...

 were once prominent - with three blast furnace

Blast furnace

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s working in the early 1830s. The old village also had a quarry

Quarry

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, a brickworks

Brickworks

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 and a bakery

Bakery

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. The first curator of Kew Gardens, William Aiton

William Aiton

William Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden...

, began work as a gardener in Woodhall House near Chapelhall.

Education

Chapelhall boasts two primary schools: the non-denominational primary school known as Chapelhall Primary; and the Roman Catholic school Saint Aloysius. Both schools, although separate entities, are located in a joint campus.

Upon graduation from the primary schools, Chapelhall primary and St Aloysius, most of the children from Chapelhall go to Caldervale high School and most of the children from St Aloysius go to St Margaret's high School
for more about the school your intersted in go to

http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk

Religion

There are three established Christian churches in Chapelhall. They are as follows:

• St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, Main Street,
• Chapelhall Church of Scotland, (Presbyterian) Russell Street
• Chapelhall Gospel Hall, (Brethren) Roberton Street

Sport

Football

Senior/Professional Football

The following members of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League are within a short drive of Chapelhall:

• Airdrie United
• Albion Rovers
• Clyde
• Hamilton Academical
• Motherwell

Junior Football

The following junior clubs are within a short drive from Chapelhall:

• Bellshill Athletic
• Carluke Rovers
• Cumbernauld Juniors
• Shotts Bon Accord
• Wishaw Juniors

Amateur Football

Chapelhall has also had a proud history of amateur football with the successful (but now disbanded "Bankhall Villa" hailed from both Chapelhall and nearby Calderbank, hence the name Bankhall.

Chapelhall is also home to The Swan Inn AFC who are currently playing in the Airdrie & Coatbridge 1st Division.

Youth Football

Chapelhall also have a boys team playing under the name "Chapelhall Thistle".

Speedway

A speedway training track operated at Chapelhall in the early 1950s.

Local website

The local website in Chapelhall is The Chapelhall Eye http://www.chapelhalleye.co.uk