Bishopbriggs was first documented in the Cadder Parish records of 1655, and was recorded to have had only eleven residents in the mid-18th century.

The population of Bishopbriggs was recorded as 658 in 1861 and 782 in 1871.

The Glasgow tramway network was extended north from Springburn to Bishopbriggs in 1903, with a terminus originally at Kirkintilloch Road close to traffic lights at what is now the Triangle Shopping Centre.

Sister Lauras Food SupplementThe Scottish Wire Rope Company was one of several firms that located in Bishopbriggs during the early 20th century.

Manufacturing in the town began to grow after the First World War, one of the manufacturers that located in Bishopbriggs at the time was a producer of Infant formula, Sister Lauras Food Supplement.

The entrance to the cinema was where the Bishopbriggs Sub-Post Office is now located.

In September 2009 the Bishopbriggs ' Farmers Market, held on the first Saturday of every month, was opened at Huntershill Village.

Bishopbriggs Academy was established in 2006 via the amalgamation of Bishopbriggs High School and Thomas Muir High School and was initially housed in the old Bishopbriggs High School building.

The new building for Bishopbriggs Academy was originally scheduled to be built at the site of the old Bishopbriggs High School campus near Bishopbriggs Cross.

The oldest, Bishopbriggs Golf Club, was founded in 1906 and is situated in parkland which was once part of Kenmure House ( built 1806 by David Hamilton, demolished 1955 ), formerly family seat of the Stirling-Maxwell Baronets.

Other amenities include a municipal library, which forms a prominent local landmark, housed in the B-Listed former buildings of the Bishopbriggs School, which was first opened in 1896 and was converted to a library when the new Bishopbriggs High School opened in 1965.

Bishopbriggs railway station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, opened in 1842 however, underlining its status as the emerging focus of the local area, although expansion remained slow throughout the latter half of the 19th century.

Other retailers in Bishopbriggs include an Asda superstore and the Strathkelvin Retail Park, including a B & Q Warehouse, located to the north of the town at Cadder, which opened in 1992.

Bishopbriggs has a large sports centre, known as the ' Leisuredrome ', which opened in 1975 and is one of the best equipped facilities of its kind in Scotland.

Located near Bishopbriggs Cross are the former playing fields of Allan Glen's School, which opened in 1923 and continue to be used by Allan Glens RFC, who play in the West Regional League Division 1.

A school in Bishopbriggs, the Thomas Muir High School which opened in 1975, was named after him.

There are currently proposals by Muse Developments for a £ 32 million redevelopment of the Triangle Shopping Centre, incorporating the former site of Bishopbriggs High School.

There has however been controversy over the demolition of the former Games Hall at Bishopbriggs High in May 2010.

In architectural terms, Bishopbriggs is notable for its superior Victorian villas, constructed after local landowners Feued lands to the west of Kirkintilloch Road and Springfield Road from the 1850s, adjacent to the then recently completed Bishopbriggs Station on the Glasgow-to-Edinburgh Railway, its inter-war art deco ' Garden Suburb ' on the former Kenmure Estate, and also for its large scale post-war private housing developments, which has more recently also including housing developments in the neighbouring formerly rural area of Robroyston.

Part of the former RAF Bishopbriggs site has also been used as a Large goods vehicle and MOT testing centre from the late 1960s, and a Golf Driving range, which was constructed on the northeastern part of the former base.

A Department of Health and Social Security Homeless Resettlement Unit, known as " the Spike " also used part of the former RAF Bishopbriggs site until its closure in March 1996.

In the Cross itself, tenement buildings dating from the Victorian era are still present on the western side of Bishopbriggs Cross.

One fell behind Cadder Church Hall, an annex building of Bishopbriggs School ( now the library ) housing the junior school, that had been converted into an ARP first-aid post, received a direct hit, killing five staff instantly, along with four civilian residents of South Crosshill Road.

Bishopbriggs currently has two secondary schools ; Bishopbriggs Academy ( Non-denominational ) at Woodhill and Turnbull High School ( Roman Catholic ) at Kenmure.

Famous sports people include Alastair Kellock, Scotland cap, lock and captain of Rugby Union side Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League who attended Bishopbriggs High School.

After the war, an unprecedented boost to the town's population came about as a result of the large-scale building programmes of the fifties and sixties which eventually replaced Balmuildy, Cadder and Woodhill farmlands with private housing, effectively amalgamating the various villages in the area into a single town, centred on the village of Bishopbriggs, increasing the population from 5, 272 in 1951 to 21, 000 in the early 1970s.

Within Bishopbriggs Cross is also a pedestrianised area at Cross Court which includes the war memorial, erected in 1920 by the Stirling family, once major land owners in the area.

There is also a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in the town which is shared by Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch Congregations.

In terms of local government, Bishopbriggs was originally part of the historic county of Lanarkshire, which continues to function as a Lieutenancy area, a successful campaign by the local Ratepayers Association won Bishopbriggs its late bid for independent Burgh status in 1964, in order to avoid being absorbed into the Glasgow Corporation's boundaries, resulting in the formation of Bishopbriggs Town Council.

There is a permanent exhibition to Thomas Muir at Bishopbriggs library, which includes a specially commissioned bust of Thomas Muir by celebrated Scottish artist Alexander Stoddart.

Currently, the area is dependent on neighbouring Bishopbriggs, however, a new development which will bring many new homes and leisure and health facilities, as well as a new train station, worth £ 300 million has been approved by Glasgow City Council, so this should address the lack of facilities in Robroyston.

She feels strongly that new prisons ought not to be built and had campaigned vocally, but without success, against the rebuilding of a prison at Bishopbriggs which lies within her constituency.

The main road through Colston is the A803 ( Springburn Road ), which then becomes Kirkintilloch Road once past Colston to the north through Bishopbriggs.

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Bishopbriggs grew from a small rural village on the old road from Glasgow to Kirkintilloch and Stirling during the 19th century, eventually growing to incorporate the adjacent villages of Auchinairn, Cadder, Jellyhill and Mavis Valley.

The blonde coloured Bishopbriggs Sandstone is from the Upper Limestone Formation of the Lower Carboniferous age.

By 1960 the publishing and administration section of the company also relocated from Townhead to join the printing section in Kirkintilloch Road, Bishopbriggs, and in 1971, new premises were occupied in Wester Cleddens Road, eventually becoming the headquarters of the company.

View of Bishopbriggs Cross looking north along Kirkintilloch Road from the junction with Crowhill Road.

Major local firms include the Distribution centre of publisher HarperCollins, located in the Westerhill area of Bishopbriggs, currently employing some 340 people, William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd originally moved there from Townhead in the early 1970s.

Gordon Chisholm, the manager of Queen of the South F. C., is from Bishopbriggs as well.

John Watson and Thomas Muir Coffee Shop commissioned Bishopbriggs local artist John Spinelli to paint a series of watercolours, depicting Thomas Muir's dramatic escape from Botany Bay and his adventures that led him to France.

Operating from its head office in Bishopbriggs and depots in Old Kilpatrick, Milngavie, Kirkintilloch, Kilsyth, Stepps and Cumbernauld, Kelvin Scottish had an operating area bounded by Loch Lomond to the west, Cumbernauld to the east, the Campsie Fells to the north and the River Clyde to the south.

The company was relocated from its offices in Duncan Street, Edinburgh, in 1995 to HarperCollins ’ Glasgow offices in Westerhill Road, Bishopbriggs.

A book, still available from the company at its post-1995 address in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow ( Bartholomew-150 Years ), details the history and achievements of Bartholomews ’ up to the time of its 150th anniversary in 1976, not very long after the last of the copperplate engravers retired and the company started to pioneer the use of geographic information systems ( GIS ) and computer-generated mapping for its cartographic publishing and for the selling of map data.

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