Eddlewood is a residential area in the south of Hamilton

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland. It serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It is the fifth-biggest town in Scotland after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld...

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. It consists mainly of local authority housing, but there are numerous private housing estates with re-generation bringing new builds of private housing from 1990, including Avongrove

Avongrove

Avongrove is a private housing estate in the west of Hamilton which was built between 1980 and 1996. The estate is situated in one of the highest parts of the town and has views across Clydesdale towards Motherwell, and the Clyde Valley....

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The area is home to the Eddlewood Sports Barn and a separate Public Hall.

Eddlewood has one school, the denominational St. Elizabeth's Primary School; the school is Fairtrade thanks to a teacher Christine Emmett. Most secondary school children in the area attend Holy Cross High School or Hamilton Grammar School. Eddlewood contains an average restaurant- John Carrigan's Eating House (which also has "The Big Man's" pub attached) - a public hall, four convenience stores, two hairdressers, a butcher, an alterationist and curtain maker.