Eurocentral
industrial estate in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Eurocentral is one of the largest industrial estates in Scotland, just off the M8 motorway, about 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of Glasgow city centre and 34 mi (55 km) west of Edinburgh. The nearest communities to the estate are Holytown, Mossend, Chapelhall, Calderbank and Carnbroe. The closest major towns are Bellshill 4 mi (6 km), Motherwell 4 mi (6 km), Coatbridge 4 mi (6 km) and Airdrie 4+1⁄2 mi (7 km).
There is a bus link to and from Glasgow city centre, Edinburgh Airport and Edinburgh city centre operated by Scottish Citylink. Eurocentral has warehouse distribution centres, factories, call centres, a railfreight centre which links with Grangemouth docks 28 mi (45 km) to the north east, England to the south and beyond to mainland Europe. The estate also has a large modern hotel/restaurant (Dakota). One of the landmarks of the Eurocentral are the so-called "Big Heids" which are three red upturned shipping containers with tubes making the shape of human heads.
The Maxim Office Park is a recent addition opening in March 2010. With 10 buildings totalling over 756,000 sq ft (70,200 m2). Built in a single phase, Maxim is also the UK’s largest speculatively built office park.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Eurocentral” is industrial estate in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Eurocentral, industrial and estate, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5411723. Authority coordinates are 55.831, -3.979. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.
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