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Photo: Gordon McKinlay, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Extensive park with zoo, tropical plant conservatory, ornamental gardens, nature trails and walks along the glen of the Rotten Calder.
Calderglen Country Park is a country park in the town of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated along the eastern edge of the town and is its principal area designated for recreation and leisure in a countryside setting. It falls within a longstanding area of greenbelt, which distinguishes it from intra-urban greenspace.
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This historic 18th-century stone bridge crossing the river Calder is part of a delightful walking trail, and spans one of only two routes connecting East Kilbride and nearby Hamilton. Barely 6ft wide, it frequently goes viral for videos of traffic jams caused by unwary drivers, and, it is jocularly suggested, has had 'more hits than the Beatles'.
Bizarre artificial salt rooms built by a Slovak family inside this educational building, each equipped with a halogenerator.
Pottery studio with a kids soft play, ceramics classes, lunches and hot drinks.
An atmospheric peat bog with a raised boardwalk trail and a rich array of biodiversity on show.
50-m swimming pool with flumes and sauna. The building, opened in 1968 (pictured at head of this page) resembles Darth Vader surfacing.
The tallest point in East Kilbride and former site of Lickprivick Castle, marked by an OS trig point and offering views over the residential areas of the town.