Glen Village is a village in the Falkirk

Falkirk (council area)

Falkirk is one of the 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland. It borders onto North Lanarkshire to the south west, Stirling to the north west, West Lothian to the south east and, across the Firth of Forth to the north east, Fife and Clackmannanshire...

 council area of Scotland

Scotland

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. It is a settlement at the southern end of Callendar Park, 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Falkirk

Falkirk

Falkirk is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies in the Forth Valley, almost midway between the two most populous cities of Scotland; north-west of Edinburgh and north-east of Glasgow....

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Glen Village is a small settlement containing around 80 homes, situated 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) from Falkirk High

Falkirk High railway station

Falkirk High railway station is one of the railway stations serving the town of Falkirk in Scotland. It is on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, and situated on the southern edge of the town, close to the Union Canal.-History:...

 train station and around 1 miles (1.6 km) from Falkirk town centre. The post office in Glen Village serves both the village and neighbouring estate of Hallglen

Hallglen

Glen Village is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is a settlement at the southern end of Callendar Park, south of Falkirk....

. Adjacent to the village is the Union Canal

Union Canal

Union Canal is a placename:* Union Canal , a canal in Scotland between Edinburgh and Falkirk* Union Canal , a nineteenth century canal in Pennsylvania, United States, closed in 1880...

 where there is a 690 yard long tunnel, locally known as the "Dark Tunnel". At the 2001 census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

 Glen Village and Hallglen was recorded as having a population of 3,488 residents.

Sport

Callendar Miners Welfare Association bowling club is also in the village and is known colloquially as "The Glen Club". Many local amateur football clubs most notable the old Cottages team and the former Chequers team played their home matches at Glen Park.

Politics

In local council elections Glen Village is part of the Falkirk South ward returning 2 Labour councillors in Gerry Goldie and Joe Lemetti, 1 Scottish Nationalist in Georgie Thomson and 1 Conservative in John Patrick. In the Scottish parliament constituency of Falkirk West the area is represented by the Scottish National Party

Scottish National Party

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's Michael Matheson

Michael Matheson

Michael Matheson is the Public Health Minister in the Scottish Government. He has been an SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, first representing Central Scotland and, since 2007, the Falkirk West constituency....

 MSP and in UK elections the constituency of Falkirk is represented by The Labour Party MP Eric Joyce

Eric Joyce

Eric Stuart Joyce is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Falkirk since 2005. Joyce served as a Private in the Black Watch before attending University and subsequently rejoining the army as a commissioned officer...

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