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Chapelhall
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Chapelhall
Location within North Lanarkshire
Population7,140 (mid-2020 est.) [1]
•  Edinburgh 35 mi (56 km) ENE
•  London 344 mi (554 km) SSE
Council area
Lieutenancy area
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town AIRDRIE
Postcode district ML6
Dialling code 01698, 01236
Police Scotland
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
UK Parliament
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55°50′42″N3°56′50″W / 55.8450°N 3.9472°W / 55.8450; -3.9472

Chapelhall (from the Gaelic Seipeal Allt - Chapel by a burn) is a village outside the town of Airdrie in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. With house building, the distinction between Airdrie and Chapelhall is being eroded. Established as a small mining village in the 19th century, it now has population of around 6,560. [2] Chapelhall is situated just off the M8 motorway 13 miles (21 km) east of Glasgow city centre and around 33 miles (53 km) west of Edinburgh. Chapelhall is also near to many of Lanarkshire's main towns, such as Bellshill (4 miles (6.4 km)), Coatbridge (5 miles (8.0 km)), Motherwell (5 miles (8.0 km)), Hamilton (7 miles (11 km)) and Cumbernauld (8 miles (13 km)), as well as being around 3 miles (4.8 km) away from Airdrie town centre. The Eurocentral freight village/industrial estate is just a mile or so away and employs people from around Lanarkshire, Glasgow and West Lothian. The rail-freight village links with Grangemouth docks 28 miles (45 km) away, (England to the south and beyond to mainland Europe).

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Chapelhall lies on the opposite side of the North Calder Water from Calderbank. Iron working and coal mining were once prominent - with three blast furnaces working in the early 1830s. The old village also had a quarry, a brickworks and a bakery. The first curator of Kew Gardens, William Aiton, began work as a gardener in Woodhall House near Chapelhall. [3] Three Celtic FC footballers came from the village, Thomas Curley, Lisbon Lions player John Clark, and Peter Grant. [4] [5]

Education

In December 2001, North Lanarkshire Council published its Schools and Centres 21 (SC21) Programme, [6] a Public Private Partnership under the broader Education 2010 plan to develop new school facilities throughout the North Lanarkshire area.

In Chapelhall, the plan proposed a new joint campus for Chapelhall Primary non-denominational and St Aloysius Roman Catholic Primary Schools, which would replace the previous two separate school buildings at Gibb Street (Chapelhall) and on the Main Street (St Aloysius Primary). The initial proposal was based on the prototype Cumbernauld Primary/St Andrew's Primary site, which was endorsed by the Archdiocese of Glasgow, consisting of one public entrance, a shared office, library, gymnasium and dining hall and two adjacent staffrooms with a moveable partition that could be kept open (as both staffs preferred to do). [7]

In October 2004, however, the Diocese of Motherwell objected to the joint campus proposal, calling for separate entrances, staffrooms, staff toilets, libraries, gymnasia and nurseries, with a shared dining hall. They lodged a petition with the Scottish Government under Section 22D of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 [8] - a subsequent review by ministers concluded that North Lanarkshire Council had acted in good faith and that the joint campus proposals did not breach the legislation.

In December 2004 a series of concessions including greater segregation of staff and pupils allowed the building work to proceed. The contract was awarded to Balfour Beatty Capital, trading as Transform Schools (North Lanarkshire) Funding Plc. [9]

One concession was a moratorium on any further shared campus arrangements until the Chapelhall joint campus scheme had been evaluated. [10] This moratorium was lifted in 2009 following the publication of a final evaluation report on shared campus schools in North Lanarkshire, produced by Dan Sweeney, a former senior official in the council's education department. The report largely endorsed the shared campus model and found that, in particular, "the autonomy of the individual schools, including ethos and educational principles, has been maintained, and the implementation of the Catholic Education Commission Charter has not been affected". [11]

The Chapelhall campus was opened on 18 August 2006. [12] [13]

The design capacity of Chapelhall Primary is 250 and St Aloysius Primary is 320. Both schools previously provided nursery classes which have been combined to provide Early Education classes. The physical education facilities within the new building, including an on-site 7-a-side floodlit synthetic pitch, are available for community use. In addition the assembly hall/gym, dining/general purpose room and other community areas are accessible to the community. [14]

Most of the children from Chapelhall Primary graduate to Caldervale High School and most of the children from St Aloysius Primary graduate to St Margaret's High School.

Religion

There are three established Christian churches in Chapelhall. They are as follows:

Sport

Football

Senior/Professional Football

The following members of the Scottish Professional Football League are within a short drive of Chapelhall:

Junior Football

The following junior clubs are within a short drive from Chapelhall

Amateur Football

Chapelhall has also had a proud history of amateur football with the successful (but now disbanded) "Bankhall Villa" hailed from both Chapelhall and nearby Calderbank, hence the name Bankhall.

Chapelhall is home to FCL team Chapelhall FC, founded in 2021. The team qualified for the Premier League in their first ever season, and reached the quarter-finals of the league cup the same year.

Speedway

A speedway training track operated at Chapelhall in the early 1950s.

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References

  1. ↑ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Estimated population of localities by broad age groups, mid-2012" (PDF). Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Inquiry into the origin, pedigree, & history of the family, or clan, of Aitons in Scotland - Histories of Scottish families - National Library of Scotland".
  4. ↑ "Lisbon Lion and Chapelhall man John Clark recalls winning the European Cup". 24 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "When Celtic's Peter Grant had to run from Airdrie fans".
  6. ↑ "Schools and Centres 21". North Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  7. ↑ "Campuses hit by diocesan divide". Times Education Supplement. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  8. ↑ "Shared campus spat heads for the courts". Times Education Supplement. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  9. ↑ "Economic Bulletin 2005, Issue 3, Company and Sector News". North Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  10. ↑ "Shared campus court action lifted". BBC News. 19 November 2004. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  11. ↑ "Shared Campus awaits Blessing". Times Education Supplement. Retrieved 24 December 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ "How Chapelhall Campus was built". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  13. ↑ "Project Status". North Lanarkshire Council. Archived from the original on 9 January 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  14. ↑ "Community Access". North Lanarkshire Council. Archived from the original on 8 January 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
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