Jerviston

Jerviston is a country estate on the north-eastern edge of the Scottish town of Motherwell in North Lanarkshire which is now occupied by Colville Park Country Club.

The estate was once the location of a small castle (Laird's House) constructed in the 15th century, owned by the family of Robert Baillie. It was said to be very similar in design to Kingencleugh Castle. In the late 18th century the famed architects James and Robert Adam were commissioned to design a new country house adjacent to the older buildings. Jerviston was later purchased by the Colville family whose steelmaking plants in the area transformed Motherwell from a small village into an industrial town in the late 19th century. After the death of David Colville Snr the estate was gifted to the employees of the steel works and turned into a public park for the benefit of local people. A country club featuring a golf course and bowling greens was established in 1923.

In the 1960s the 'old' (18th-century) Jerviston House was demolished and replaced by a new club house with modern facilities – today the Colville Park club hosts events such as weddings there. Around the same time, what remained of the 15th-century castle – which had become dilapidated – was also torn down.

The football grounds are home to Colville Park A.F.C., a successful amateur club which began life in the 1960s as a works team for the Colville steelworks at Ravenscraig and Dalzell.

Jerviston is also the name of a small residential area to the south of the country club which, along with the adjacent Cleekhimin area and the new Ravenscraig redevelopment, lie on the opposite side of the South Calder Water from the rest of Motherwell. The Jerviston/Cleekhimin settlement is part of a wider built-up area to the east of Bellshill which includes the villages of Carfin, New Stevenston, Newhouse, Newarthill and Holytown – these communities are nowadays connected by modern housing estates.

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