The placename of Nethercroy is shown on Rev Timothy Pont's map of the 17th Century and also on another old map based on this and contained in a beautifully illustrated atlas by Bleau. A copy of this atlas and other relevant maps of other periods are held by Croy Historical Society for consultation by members and visitors.
 
A major study, by one of our members, of what was known as "The Lands of Nethercroy" is ongoing and runs to about five large volumes of relevant research. Researchers and students of local history are welcome to consult these dossiers by arrangement. 
 
The Lands of Nethercroy took in an area running from the line of the Forth & Clyde Canal in the North to the line of the Edinburgh to Glasgow railway line as its south boundary. The east boundary was aproximately where the Craigmarloch (the real Craigmarloch) to Dullatur road is and the west boundary roughly where the present Croy to Kilsyth Road is.
 
The Lands of Nethercroy are / were traversed by the Roman Antonine Wall  and some relics of the Romans have been recovered from the old mid 19th Century farmhouse at Nethercroy. These relics are now retained in national museums. 
ca 1840, a Mr William Wilson invested in the establishment of "the Estate of Nethercroy" building a small mansionhouse complete with ice house, summer house, bowling green, shootings, proper sanitation, private wharf at the canal, a walled garden and orchard, tree lined approach avenue, offices containing living quarters for the farm workers, dairy, stable, and other workers housing.
 
The society has a considerable time line of the occupants of the lands of Nethercroy detailing names of people living there. Among the families are the names  of Marshall, Horsburgh, Cowan, Wallace, Wingate, Goldie, Scott, Belgian Refugees from WW1 and then the Nash family. Members of the Nethercroy Nash family are still living in the Croy and Kilsyth areas and from information given by them we are recreating drawings of the Mansion House, Farmhouse and Walled Garden.
 
Some other places known to have existed at Nethercroy or on Croy Hill are Ashbeugh, Dochledge, Blair Tummock, Peters OR Porters Mailings, the Mailing or Mealan House, Kings Seat, Craigmarloch Pavilion, Croy Hill or 'the shepherds' Cottage (the Rae, Patrick and McDonald families), the Cloven Stones and the three coal & ironstone mines.
 
The story of Nethercroy Ironstone and Coal Pits is extensive and will be added to this section of the website in due course, but anyone interested should contact the society. The same also applies to, for example, the Nash Family story.