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It is a short walk away from an area of countryside which features a river known as the Luggie Water.

The Bothlin is without a doubt the Luggie's major contributing stream.

The name Luggie is a Scots word meaning a wooden bucket with handles.

He helped David Gray by writing a preface for The Luggie.

On the south bound side of Stirling Road the houses back onto Luggie Water.

Remains of the lade channel can still be discerned on the south bank of the Luggie, near the footbridge.

He was also the brother of Welsh boxer Leonard "Luggie" Reece.

He is specially identified with the brief and tragic history of David Gray, the poet of The Luggie.

From this point to the Luggie's confluence with the Kelvin is a distance of approximately 11 miles which almost agrees with Groome.

He was unsuccessful in his efforts to place Gray's poem, The Luggie, in Cornhill Magazine, but gave him some light literary work.

He began to write poetry for The Glasgow Citizen and began his idyll on the Luggie, the little stream that ran through Merkland.

The Luggie Bridge, just to the north of the village, is a fine stone arch [3] and it now forms part of the footway north out of the village.

The Luggie, the principal poem of Gray, is a kind of reverie in which the scenes and events of his childhood and his early aspirations are mingled with the music of the stream which he celebrates.

It is therefore difficult to claim a single source for this river and it can be safely assumed as per the Ordnance Survey that the river called the Luggie Water commences at the confluence of its contributaries at Rumblybugs bridge.

The Luggie Water is a river rather than a rivulet whose headwaters rise in the general area of Greengairs and West Fannyside in the administrative council area of North Lanarkshire to the northern outskirts of Kirkintilloch where it merges with the Kelvin.

The burn from the south - which is the larger of the two contributing streams that make the first notification on maps as Luggie Water after the confluence of the two is in turn an entity also made of drainage ditches from fields to the north east and north of the village of Greengairs.