King’s Park
King's Park is a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated south of the River Clyde and borders the Glasgow areas of Croftfoot, Cathcart, Simshill, Mount Florida and Toryglen and the neighbourhood of Bankhead in the adjoining town of Rutherglen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: district in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “King’s Park, Glasgow” and “Kings Park”
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hampden Park and King’s Park railway station.
Hampden Park
Stadium
Photo: Blackcat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hampden Park, currently known as Barclays Hampden for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the national stadium of football in Scotland and home of the Scotland national football team.
King’s Park railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King's Park railway station is a railway station serving the King's Park and Simshill areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Newton branch of the Cathcart Circle Line, which was electrified by British Railways in 1962.
Scottish Football Museum
Museum
The Scottish Football Museum is Scotland’s national museum of association football, located in Hampden Park in Glasgow. The museum was established in 1994 being first located in a small section of Glasgow’s Museum of Transport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toryglen and Mount Florida.
Toryglen
Suburb
Toryglen is a district in southern Glasgow, Scotland, falling within the Langside ward under Glasgow City Council. It is approximately two miles south of the city centre, bounded to the west by Mount Florida, the north-west by Polmadie, to the north-east by the West Coast Main Line railway and the M74 motorway the south by King's Park, and immediately to the east by the town of Rutherglen.
Mount Florida
Suburb
Photo: Mothering, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Florida is an area in the south-east of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
Croftfoot
Suburb
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croftfoot is a residential area on the southeastern side of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is bordered by Castlemilk to the south and King's Park to the west within Glasgow, and by the Rutherglen areas of Spittal to the east and Bankhead to the north.
King’s Park
- Categories: district and locality
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.82252° or 55° 49′ 21″ northLongitude
-4.2445° or 4° 14′ 40″ westElevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
9C7QRQF4+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 535666371OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“King’s Park” goes by many names.
- Basque: “King’s Park (Glasgow)”
- Basque: “King’s Park”
- Chinese: “國王公園”
- Esperanto: “Reĝa Parko”
- Irish: “Pàirc an Rìgh”
- Irish: “Páirc Rígh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pàirc an Rìgh”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “King’s Park”. Photo: Iain Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.