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Moodiesburn is a residential suburb located 8 miles north-east of Glasgow city centre, in the North Lanarkshire council area of Scotland. It is situated on the A80 road, between Stepps and Cumbernauld. ==Landmarks== Moodiesburn's original early 1950s council home builds comprise an area known as "Old Moodiesburn" (though a substantial number of those homes are now privately owned). The opposite end, by Devro headquarters, is composed mostly of private homes built by Christian Salvesen (1970), Tay/Wimpey (1992), Bellway (1995) and Persimmon (2006), which are largely inhabited by working- and middle class families. Beginning in the early 1970s, Moodiesburn's underclass would refer to the then-new Salvesen estate as "Spam Valley", implying that mortgages for the newer properties forced the new owners to survive eating only spam. Usage of the term began to drop off in the early-to-mid 1990s as new private estates were erected. A small estate of new council builds was constructed in the midst of the Salvesen area in 2013. The suburb includes a community centre and library, a miners' welfare club (the Auchengeich Miners Welfare), a multi-denominational school (Glenmanor Primary), a denominational school (St. Michael's Primary), a Church of Scotland parish church, a Roman Catholic church, and an independent evangelical church called New Beginnings. There is also a public house (the Silver Larch, which the ''Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser'' said "could very well be the roughest pub in North Lanarkshire"), a Knights of Saint Columba social club and a coffee shop called The Coffee House. Moodiesburn House Hotel - previously the site of the Bedlay Dowager House - was closed in early 2008 and its entire contents put up for auction. In March 2008 the function hall of the hotel was vandalised and set on fire. Bedlay Cemetery is the local cemetery for Moodiesburn. The nearby Bedlay Castle has stood since the late 16th century.〔Mason, Gordon ''The Castles of Glasgow and the Clyde'', Goblinshead, 2000 (p.51)〕〔Coventry, Martin ''The Castles of Scotland (3rd Edition)'', Goblinshead, 2001 (p.83)〕 Moodiesburn is also home to the headquarters of Devro, as well as a number of youth football teams, including Moodiesburn Red Star and Bridgend Boys club. 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「Moodiesburn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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