Eaglesham
East Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire
![Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire](aerial/eaglesham_b.jpg)
Eaglesham was a planned village, carefully laid out and built in 1769
or so by one Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton.
![Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire](aerial/eaglesham_a.jpg)
The village became the model on which David Dale and later Robert Owen
built New Lanark in 1786, now a world heritage site.
![Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire](aerial/eaglesham_c.jpg)
The parish church. Like many churches in the area this one is built on
the site of a much older, pre-Christian place of worship.