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Cyclo2000 wrote:
PPS Even although it hasn't got hill in it's name, it is up a hill so...
Ever wonder whose idea it was to call it Castlemilk?
At some time in the distant past some cat in shining armour is cleaning the gore off his lance when he thinks "I'll build a castle up here! Wonderful views, clean air etc." He tells his mate who asks him, "What you gonna call it then?"
"Well," says our Knight, "I thought...Milk."
Scottish Place Names, George Mackay wrote:Castlemilk (Glasgow) "Castle on the milky white stream". Chaisteil (Scottish Gaelic) 'castle'; Melg (old Irish Gaelic) 'milk'. This is one of the vast outer Glasgow housing development zones, often reffered tosimply as "the Milk".
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