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Anderston is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is on the north bank of the River Clyde and forms the south western edge of the city centre. Established as a village of handloom weavers in the early 18th century, Anderston was an independent burgh of barony from 1824 until it was incorporated into the City of Glasgow in 1846.
It is on the north bank of the River Clyde and forms the south western edge of the city centre. Established as a village of handloom weavers in the early 18th century, Anderston was an independent burgh of barony from 1824 until it was incorporated into the City of Glasgow in 1846.
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Place: Anderston Lanarkshire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Anderston like this: Anderston, a suburb of Glasgow, and a quoad sacra parish in Barony parish, Lanarkshire.
From its origins as a weaver's village in the 1720s, Anderston merged with the city of Glasgow as that city began to develop in the 18th Century east and west along the banks of the River Clyde. Its name being derived from the principal landowners of the area, the Anderson family of Stobcross.
Anderston railway station serves Glasgow 's financial district of Anderston and, across the M8 motorway, the housing schemes of both Anderston West and the Blythswood Court estate of the Anderston Centre.
Anderston is a district to the west of the city centre. Built upon the lands of Stobcross, the name is a portmaneau of “Anderson’s Town” – the village founded here in the 16th Century by the Anderson family who owned most of the land.
