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fullpagename: Fiddler's Burn, East Kilbride.

Fiddler's Burn (East Kilbride & High Blantyre)a small tributary of the Rotten Calder Water on the eastern border of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

The Fiddler's burn in Blantyre Parish was in former times known as the Jenkin's Burn. The burn is little visited due to difficult access and lies at a steep heavily overgrown and sheltered site opposite the Dee of Calder where the former Calderwood Castle once stood. The site is located in Calderglen Country Park in an archaic division once known as Calderwood Glen, wholly in East Kilbride. Upon the 'burn' are two small scenic waterfalls and the remains of three stone footbridges, the lowermost one which is still intact, and at the upper reaches of the burn is a stone-built sluice gate and basin. The uppermost footbridge abbutments on the southern side of the valley are of local vernacular stone-built rubble. The waterway itself is born from a spring which arises a short distance away in the lands of Auchentibber in High Blantyre, also in South Lanarkshire. Upon its descent into Calderwood Glen it has carved a channel through precipitous cliffs on a rocky course until it meets the Rotten Calder Water a short distance below.

The burn may have gained it's name from Tam Wilkie, a fiddler who was once a renowned character of East Kilbride Parish in the 1800's, known for poaching and fishing in Calderwood Glen. The burn forms an archaic boundary between the old lands of Calderside and Calderwood, whilst the neighbouring burn to the north (Craigneith Burn) forms the parish boundary between East Kilbride Parish and High Blantyre Parish.