Baldernock Local History Group
About
Baldernock Local History Group was formed in 2013 to explore, understand and inform about the history of Baldernock parish, a small rural parish between Milngavie and Torrance on the northern outskirts of Glasgow. Baldernock has a rich agricultural legacy as well as extensive remains of mining for limestone, coal, ironstone and fireclay, and widespread evidence of 18th and 19th century lime burning.
The Local History Group holds regular talks and walks in the autumn and winter, focussing to date on the area's local history, including talks on: the Forth and Clyde canal and the Antonine Wall (both of which cut through the neighbouring area to the immediate south of the Parish); local housing; the meaning of Gaelic place names in the parish; mining and other industry; and designed landscapes.