Description
Thornton View is a development of 4 & 5 bedroom homes in the thriving town of East Kilbride, just 8 miles from Glasgow. There's an incredible variety of sports and entertainment facilities in the area, plus wonderful surrounding countryside for your days off. Excellent road and rail links put you within easy reach of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Located just eight miles from the heart of Glasgow, East Kilbride is a thriving town where old and new sit happily side by side. There's East Kilbride Village for instance, where traditional shops and speciality stores mingle with restaurants and pubs - while the town centre itself is about to benefit from a multi-million pound redevelopment to create a shopping and leisure environment in tune with the 21st Century.
About the area
So much to enjoy, so close to home Located just eight miles from the heart of Glasgow, East Kilbride is a thriving town where old and new sit happily side by side. There’s East Kilbride Village for instance, where traditional shops and speciality stores mingle with restaurants and pubs – while the town centre itself is about to benefit from a multi‑million pound redevelopment to create a shopping and leisure environment in tune with the 21st Century.
There are sports and entertainment facilities galore; an exciting Arts Centre that puts on all sorts of live performances, and has its own recording studios and craft workshops anyone can use; clubs that cater for a huge range of activities, from pipe bands to tenpin bowling, ice skating to American football, subaqua and so much more. And, of course, you’re conveniently close to the region’s major roads – including the M8 and M74 – as well as the rail links that can take you into Glasgow or Edinburgh and the airport that serves numerous destinations throughout the UK and further afield.
All sorts of attractions are near to hand With Glasgow so close – whether it’s culture or the arts, symphony orchestras or rock bands, pulsating nightclubs or intimate restaurants, fascinating museums or classic drama, Old Firm derbies or scores of other attractions.
Leave the city a little behind and you’ve some of the most spectacular landscape in the British Isles to discover and explore. From Loch Lomond to the Western Isles, Campsie Fells to Argyll Forest, glens and bens with ever-changing moods that range from the brooding to the breathtakingly beautiful. And there are plenty of manmade attractions too. Historic houses and crumbling castles, racecourses at Ayr and Hamilton Park, jazz festivals and firework displays, botanic gardens, theme parks and much more besides.
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Specification
Every home is built to a high specification. We also offer our customers the opportunity to personalise their home, before they move in, with an exciting range of optional extras.
Leisure facilities
East Kilbride is home to several big name gyms as well as an indoor ice rink, multi-screen cinema complex and the Dolan Centre swimming baths (closed for refurbishment, opening Winter 2010). The Time Capsule (in Coatbride) is close by which features a high activity swim area with plenty of slides / ice skating and fun parks for younger children.
Local shopping
There is a wide range of local amenities available in the area, with the East Kilbride Shopping Centre, Princes Square Shopping Centre, Kingsgate Retail Park, Greenhills and Morrisons Supermarket all nearby.
Schools and education
There are a wide range of schools in the area, including:
Nearest schools:
- Mossneuk Primary School (0.5 miles)
- Canberra Primary School (1.2 miles)
- East Milton Primary School (1.3 miles)
Transport links
East Kilbride is just a short distance from the 3 main motorways M77 / M74 / M8 providing quick connections to other areas in Scotland. East Kilbride train station is on one of the major routes and East Kilbride town Centre operates a great bus service to many surrounding areas. Glasgow Airport is just 21 miles from East Kilbride.
Nearest stations:
Hairmyres
(0.6 miles)
Thorntonhall
(0.9 miles)
Busby
(1.8 miles)
Health facilities
There are several doctors, dentists and opticians all close by to the development. Hairmyers hospital is the local hospital for the area.
Driving directions
From M74
- Take Junction 5 and follow the A725 towards East Kilbride
- As the A725 forks, stay in the right hand lane
- Take the 2nd exit at the 1st roundabout
- Take the 1st exit at the 2nd roundabout which leads you onto Stewartfield Way
- Continue ahead until you reach Phillipshill roundabout at the Holiday Inn
- Go straight ahead onto the A77 and take the 1st exit onto Redwood Drive
- At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Eaglesham Road towards Jackton
- Thornton View is on your right hand side.
Opening hours
| Monday | 11:00 - 17:30 |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 11:00 - 17:30 |
| Friday | 11:00 - 17:30 |
| Saturday | 11:00 - 17:30 |
| Sunday | 11:00 - 17:30 |
Book an appointment to visit this development online at www.taylorwimpey.co.uk
Call directly
Tel: 0843 314 1675 BT 4p/min
Site plan
About Taylor Wimpey
Taylor Wimpey Plc
Taylor Wimpey develops land into places that people want to call home by creating new and sustainable communities and enhancing local and existing neighbourhoods. We work hard to provide our customers with a stress-free, high quality service whilst focusing on design and build quality. We create places where people aspire to live, work and play.
Our 23 regional businesses in the UK give our operations significant scale and truly national geographic coverage. Each business builds a range of products, from one bedroom apartments and starter homes to large detached family homes.
