Around 5pm on Sunday 24th June 2018 emergency services were called out to a major blaze just off Newhousemill Road (the back roads to Blantyre). An area at the back of Lodgehill Farm was ablaze with thick black smoke seen as far off as Calderglen Country Park and Low Blantyre. Three fire engines attended […]
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Lodgehill Farm
Described in 1859 as, “A Farm Steading, the property of the Right Honble. [Honourable] Charles Lord Blantyre. ” Blantyre Muir” comes as far as the Road south of this Farm.” In 1879, Mr James Young or nearby Edge Farm had ownership of Lodgehill. Just 2 years later it was known to be uninhabited by 1881. […]