East Kilbride, Scotland
Roundabout Republic
"Where Every Journey Begins With A Roundabout"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield quartered with a roundabout rampant, the silhouette of the Plaza shopping centre, a strand of drizzle falling upon a Category B-listed 1960s tower block, and the Calderglen Country Park deer regarding it all with mild confusion. Motto beneath in Latin: 'Semper Circumnavigandum' (Always Going Round In Circles).
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Came for the shopping centre, stayed because I genuinely could not find my way out via the roundabout network. The Plaza is fine if you like 1960s concrete optimism, and Calderglen Country Park was a lovely surprise, but the town centre itself feels like it was designed by someone who really, really loved traffic islands. Three stars because the polytunnel-flavoured drizzle kept things authentic."— Gordon P, Motherwell
Property Listing
Nestled just south of Glasgow, this visionary post-war new town offers unrivalled access to an intricate network of roundabouts, a shopping centre with genuine mid-century character, and leafy Calderglen Country Park for when you need to escape the ring roads. A rare opportunity to live somewhere purpose-built for cars, in a country famous for producing world-class engineers.
Twinned With
Milton Keynes — Both towns were purpose-built new towns with a near-pathological devotion to the roundabout as an art form.
Supporting Evidence
East Kilbride was Scotland's first 'New Town', designated in 1947, and reportedly has more roundabouts per capita than almost anywhere else in the UK.