Cumbernauld and Kilsyth is a local government district in Strathclyde Region, Scotland. It contains the whole of the new town of Cumbernauld, a government-planned urban community, and the town of Kilsyth. Cumbernauld, designated a new town in 1955, is an overspill town—suburb designed to relieve crowding—for Glasgow. Its industries include light engineering; printing; warehousing and distribution; and the making of clothing, electronic equipment, and textiles.
Kilsyth is now mainly a dormitory town—a suburb in which commuters live—and many of its inhabitants work in Cumbernauld, Falkirk, or Glasgow. Kilsyth developed as a center of mining and quarrying, and of weaving, but these industries have declined. Many miners live in Kilsyth but work elsewhere.
