Swinton is an eastern suburb of the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 city 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...

, north of the areas of Baillieston

Baillieston

Baillieston is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about 7 miles east of the city centre.It is also the name of Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council...

 and Garrowhill

Garrowhill

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 and is now concurrent with the nineteenth century Easterhouse

Easterhouse

Easterhouse is a suburb about east of Glasgow city centre, Scotland. It was partially built on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of a boundary expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. Building began in the mid-1950s by the then local authority, Glasgow Corporation...

village. Easterhouse train station gives direct access to the centre of Glasgow.

The hamlet of Swinton began to emerge with the building of cotton hand loom weavers' cottages in the early 1790s.