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Milngavie , (,〔(List of railway station names English, Gaelic and Scots )〕 (スコットランド・ゲール語:Muileann-Gaidh)〔(Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland )〕) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow, and about from Glasgow city centre. It neighbours Bearsden. Milngavie is a commuter town, with much of its working population travelling to Glasgow to work or study. The town is served by Milngavie railway station on the North Clyde Line of the SPT rail network, which links it to Central Glasgow. The town is also a very popular retirement location, with an unusually high proportion of elderly. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 12,795 in 5,256 households. The Milngavie and Bearsden Herald, owned by Johnston Press, is a weekly newspaper that covers local events from the schools, town halls, community and government in the area. The paper was established in 1901 and is printed every Wednesday, to be sold on Thursdays. Currently the town is perhaps best known as the start of the West Highland Way long distance footpath which runs northwards for to the town of Fort William. A granite obelisk in the town centre marks the official starting point of the footpath. == History == The apparent mismatch between the town's written and pronounced names stems from the way its Gaelic name was adapted into English. The Gaelic name for the town is conjectured to have been ''Muileann Dhaibhidh'' ((:ˌmulan̪ˠ ˈɣaivi);〔http://www.akerbeltz.org/beagangaidhlig/gramar/PDF/AnTreoir-mionaideach.pdf〕 "David's mill"), with ''Daibhidh'' shortened to ''Dàidh'' in common speech, yielding ''Muileann Dhàidh'' ((:ˌmulan̪ˠ ˈɣai)). The former may thus account for the spelling "-gavie", the latter for the pronunciation "-guy". The stress placement is Gaelic, too, but the first part of the name may have been influenced by its Scots/English counterpart〔http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=32538&startset=37538771&query=Miln&fhit=Mill&dregion=form&dtext=dost〕 in both pronunciation and spelling, not just reduced; cf. Kirkcudbright. There are many Scots names for the town. In fact, even within single texts such as the Records of the Parliament of Scotland, different variants are used alongside each other (''Mylnedavie'', ''Mylnegaivie'', ''Milnegaivie'' and ''Milngaivie''). Joan Blaeu's Atlas of Scotland shows some Scots spellings for well-known places which indicate some of their origins: Milngavie is shown as ''Milgay'' ("ay" being a Scots spelling of , cf. ''aye'' and the original pronunciation of ''MacKay''), possibly meaning "Mill of Guy". An alternative suggestion is that the original translation meant "Gavin's Mill", and indeed Gavin's Mill remains in the town centre to this day. The most recently published name is ''Mulguy'', although the author (Billy Kay) admits that while academically researched, some entries in his work on place names may be controversial. Although known today as a dormitory suburb of Glasgow, the town grew from a country village within the parish of New Kilpatrick to a minor industrial centre in the nineteenth century with paper mills and bleach works on the Allander River to the north east of the town centre. Some remnants of this industry remain today on the Clober Industrial Estate. The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains. Stone built villas and semi detached houses were constructed for wealthy citizens to the east of the town centre and around Tannoch Loch when commuting to Glasgow was made possible by the opening of the railway which reached the town in 1863. After World War II a local authority housing scheme was built to the west of the town centre, housing many people relocated from Clydebank which had been badly bombed. The town grew with the addition of private speculative housing developments of bungalows and semi-detached homes at South Mains to the south of the town centre and around Clober, to the west, in the 1950s and 1960s. The Fairways estate was built in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, the town centre was redeveloped to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety. The central commercial streets were pedestrianised and many buildings replaced. A superstore was opened on the fringes of the town centre in the 1990s. Residents launched a "tongue in cheek" campaign to bring the Olympic games to Milngavie in 2020. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milngavie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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