Editing Milngavie (section)

== Landmarks ==
[[File:The start of the West Highland Way (geograph 6199493).jpg|thumb|West Highland Way obelisk, Milngavie]]
[[File:Milngavie water works (AHP).jpg|thumb|[[Milngavie water treatment works]]]]
Little remains of the pre-nineteenth century village other than the Corbie Ha' meeting hall, Cross Keys [[Public House]], although now renovated and renamed, and the Gavin's Mill [[water mill]] on the [[Allander Water]] along with Barloch House and Barloch Farm.

There are a few good examples of nineteenth century stone villas along the Station Road as well as the well preserved nineteenth century railway station. Many interesting Victorian houses around the Tannoch Conservation Area show Scottish cottage, [[Scottish Baronial]], [[Classical architecture]] and [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] influences. The town centre and Strathblane Road have remaining Victorian shop/[[tenement]] buildings and a few [[Arts and Crafts movement|Arts and crafts]] influenced commercial buildings. Craigmillar Avenue and the area around Baldernock Road have some large Arts and Crafts and [[Glasgow Style]] influenced houses. 
[[File:View across milngavie.jpg|thumbnail|right|View across Milngavie]]

The bulk of the housing stock is twentieth century, showing Scottish [[vernacular]] influences such as [[harl]]ing or rough-casting, and, occasionally, more traditionally English elements like black and white timber paneled [[dormer]] windows and gables.

The public [[sheltered housing]] projects of the 1970s and 1980s are interesting for their attempts to use traditional local materials like grey rough-cast and slate plus interesting rounded walls and [[pitched roof]]s.

The most recent development is characterised by some interesting one-off conversions and extensions to Victorian properties; new housing by developers that often follows designs based on the brick architecture of the [[South of England]]; and contemporary steel framed commercial and leisure buildings.

The [[Milngavie water treatment works|Milngavie reservoir]] is visited by tourists and walkers. The reservoir is made up of the Craigmaddie and Mugdock reservoirs and was opened in 1859 by [[Queen Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/158786/details/glasgow+corporation+waterworks+milngavie+craigmaddie+reservoir/ |title=Glasgow Corporation Waterworks, Milngavie, Craigmaddie Reservoir |publisher=Canmore.rcahms.gov.uk |date=2 April 2003 |access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> It is the main supplier of water to the city of [[Glasgow]] and can hold up to {{convert|548|e6impgal|GL|abbr=off}} of water.

The war memorial is by [[George Henry Paulin]].

The Auld Wives' Lifts, an interesting natural rock feature, is located on Craigmaddie Muir to the north east of Milngavie.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Auld Wives' Lifts|url=http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/Images/PasseportLiteracyMonumentsAuldWives_tcm4-731540.pdf|publisher=Education Scotland|access-date=21 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107200556/http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/Images/PasseportLiteracyMonumentsAuldWives_tcm4-731540.pdf|archive-date=7 January 2013}}</ref>