Qualla: Bothwell https://qualla.com/bothwell en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/bothwell-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bothwell https://qualla.com/bothwell Bothwell: Introduction https://qualla.com/bothwell/ Photo credit Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0. Earls Gate, in Bothwell, was named Greater Glasgow's most expensive street in 2019. Average price tag: £1,125,000. By 2021 the same row of houses was named the most expensive street in the entire West of Scotland. From its bay windows you can look down on the broken donjon of Bothwell Castle, the river bend Walter of Moray fortified seven centuries ago. It is a strange kind of continuity: a thirteenth-century stronghold whose grounds now line the property pages of the Glasgow papers, in a village that began as a mining row and is now a celebrity commuter belt.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/bothwell-wp/gcvj-bothwell-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bothwell: From Pithead to Premiership https://qualla.com/bothwell/ Photo credit Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Bothwell sits on the north bank of the Clyde, nine miles east-southeast of Glasgow centre. For centuries it was a mining village - one of the seams of black coal that fed the iron furnaces of Coatbridge and the shipyards of the Clyde. Long before the mines, in June 1679, the Batt...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/bothwell-wp/gcvj-bothwell-from-pithead-to-premiership.mp3 0:06 2 full Bothwell: A Choir from 1398 https://qualla.com/bothwell/ Photo credit G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0. Bothwell's parish church was restored at the end of the 19th century, but its choir is older - the surviving choir of a Gothic church built in 1398. In the manse beside it, Joanna Baillie was born in 1762, a poet and playwright who would go on to be one of the most performed dram...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/bothwell-wp/gcvj-bothwell-a-choir-from-1398.mp3 0:06 3 full Bothwell: Scarecrows on the Main Street https://qualla.com/bothwell/ Photo credit Simon Johnston, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 2010 a community group called Brighter Bothwell launched what became the Bothwell Community Scarecrow Festival. Every September the Main Street fills with scarecrows - made by local businesses, by schoolchildren, by households who tape their efforts to garden walls. Boyd Tunno...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/bothwell-wp/gcvj-bothwell-scarecrows-on-the-main-street.mp3 0:06 4 full Bothwell: The Bothwell Bank https://qualla.com/bothwell/ Photo credit Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0. Bothwell's bluff above the Clyde takes the river in a wide, bold sweep that Scottish ballads have been calling 'the Bothwell bank' for as long as anyone has been writing them down. A footbridge crosses the river to Blantyre on the south side, leading directly to the David Livings...

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