Cambuslang sits on a long bend on the south bank of the River Clyde, a few miles south east of the city of Glasgow.

One of the highlights in the town every June is its Summerfest, providing a range of street entertainment, an arts programme, children's theatre and much more.
 

ScotKart, Indoor Racing
 

The family can experience the world of competitive motorsport at Scotkart Indoor Kart Racing, in Cambuslang.

Scotkart features the two largest indoor circuits in Scotland and is a great opportunitity to experience a fun hi-octane full throttle race to the chequered flag!  Take the event more competitive to the newly opened Terminator Paintball Arena and experience the UK’s FIRST all weather ( mud free!)  full size Paintball Tournament Arena,  now open behind the Scotkart circuit at Cambuslang.

It's a million miles from traditional paintball in the woods and fields. In this game you play games of 5, 7 or 10 a side in a team. The Arena is floodlit for night time use, and the playing surface is artificial grass for a mud free experience. For the less competitive, there is an extensive viewing area, as it's an exciting spectacle. 

Shopping in Cambuslang has taken on a completely new meaning since the recent revamp of the Main Street. The redevelopment has modernised the Cambuslang Precinct as a lively centre with a food store, an employment centre, restaurant, public library, registrar's office and local services. 

Cambuslang continues to have a mix of traditional high street shopping, as well as cosy coffee shops and pubs to stop for refreshments during a shopping trip.
 

A Brief History
 

Cambuslang's name may derive from its location on the banks of a large bend on the River Clyde. Cambus literally means bend of the water in Scots and lang means long. It may also mean long bay - the bend in the Clyde was once the highest tidal bay on the river before a weir was built at Glasgow more than 100 years ago.

The Latin derivation of lang suggests a curved bank of a fast moving stream and the Old Parish Church was built on such a bank of the Kirk Burn that flows into the Clyde a mile or so down river.

The rectangular parish church, with its square central tower, also stands on a hill - the Anglo-Saxon Camb means a crest or ridge. Designed by Edinburgh architect David Cousin, the 'B' listed building, which has an impressive vaulted interior and curved gallery supported on cast-iron columns, was built in the Kirkhill area between 1839 and 1841 on the site of previous churches dating back as far as the 1680s.

Construction of the chancel was started in 1919 to a design by Peter MacGregor Chalmers and was completed in 1922.

Going back further in time, it has been suggested that Cambuslang is near where King Arthur won the the sixth of his 12 famous battles around 508AD, as described in the ninth century Historia Brittonum, written by Welsh scholar Nennius.

Cambuslang is also supposedly where King Arthur killed the outlawed sons of Caw, a local enemy of Arthur who was also buried here after his own death.

Of the few historical sites in the area, the most notable is probably Gilbertfield Castle, which was built by the Hamilton family in the early 17th century near Dechmont hill to the south of Cambuslang in the ancient barony of Drumsagard. By the 18th century it was owned by the retired soldier William Hamilton of Gilbertfield who translated the famous poem Sir William Wallace by Blind Harry from old Scots into English.

The Braveheart movie starring Mel Gibson was based on the epic poem which was written in 1477, 172 years after Wallace was executed in the Smithfield area of London.

Another historic but less well known event was the evangelical phenomenon, the Cambuslang Wark in 1742. This was a massive religious event started by the local parish minister, Mr McCulloch, whose parishioners believed that a special outpouring of the Divine Spirit had taken place.

Over a six month period, more than 30,000 people, many of them not even religious, flocked to the area to hear several thousand speakers.

Around this time the population was primarily weavers, colliers, masons and agricultural labourers but with the coming of the industrial revolution it became a major centre of heavy industry with coal mining, textiles and iron manufacturing. Along with most of the rest of the country, heavy industry died off in the second half of the 20th century but in the 1980s the town saw the start of a redevelopment of its derelict industrial areas, with the establishment of an Investment Park, South Lanarkshire College and Scotland's first indoor kart-racing track.

Cambuslang is only a short drive away from East Kilbride, which is home to one of Scotland's largest indoor shopping centres, and also contains its own ice rink and cinema.

Rutherglen is also situated close by, containing Rutherglen Town Hall, which has recently been given a major overhaul.