Editing Airdrie, North Lanarkshire (section)

==Name==
Airdrie's name first appeared in the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland ([[Latin]]: ''Registrum Magni Sigilii Regum Scotorum'') in 1373 as 'Ardre'. By 1546 it had become 'Ardry' and by 1587 it was known as 'Ardrie'. In 1630 it finally appeared in the Register as 'Airdrie'. Given the topography of the area, the most likely interpretation is that the name derives from the Gaelic ''An Àrd Ruigh'' meaning 'a level height' or 'high pasture land'. Another possibility is from the Gaelic ''An Àrd Àirighe'' meaning 'a [[sheiling]], a summer pasture/shepherd's hut'. A third possibility is the Gaelic ''Ard Reidh'' meaning 'a high plain'.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Drummond|first1=Peter, John|title=An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin|date=2014|publisher=Glasgow University|location=Glasgow|page=322|url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5270/1/2014DrummondPhD.pdf#page=323|access-date=3 July 2017}}</ref> A further, non-Gaelic alternative is the [[Brittonic languages|Brythonic]], i.e. [[Cumbric]] or North [[Welsh language|Welsh]], ''ard tref'' (becoming ardre by process of assimilation), meaning 'a high steading or farmstead', which would date back to the times of the [[Kingdom of Strathclyde]], before the expansion of Gaelic or English speech into the region. [[Airthrey Castle]] in Stirlingshire may have a similar derivation.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Welsh Origins of Scottish Place-Names|last=Oxenham|first=William|publisher=Gwasg Carreg Gwalch|year=2005|isbn=0-86381-957-5|location=Llanrwst|pages=97}}</ref>