Hillington
Hillington is an area on the southwestern edge of the Scottish city of Glasgow comprising a residential neighbourhood and a large industrial suburb. While the residential area is wholly within Glasgow, the greater part of the industrial estate on the other side of the Inverclyde Line railway tracks falls under the jurisdiction of neighbouring Renfrew, although uses a Glasgow postcode.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Hillington, Scotland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Nicholas’ Cardonald Church and Hillington East railway station.
St Nicholas’ Cardonald Church
Church
The Parish Church of Saint Nicholas, also known as St Nicholas' Cardonald, is a 20th century Parish church of the Church of Scotland, located in the Hillington and Cardonald areas of Glasgow.
Hillington East railway station
Railway station
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
Hillington East railway station is located in the Hillington district of Glasgow, Scotland, also serving the eastern portion of the large Hillington industrial estate to the north. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Inverclyde Line.
Hillington West railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hillington West railway station is located in the Hillington district of Glasgow, Scotland, also serving the western portion of the large Hillington industrial estate to the north, and the Penilee neighbourhood to the south.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crookston and Penilee.
Crookston
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crookston is a residential suburb on the southwestern edge of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Two distinct and geographically separate neighbourhoods about one mile apart on opposite sides of the White Cart Water are known by the Crookston name, owing to factors in their development.
Penilee
Suburb
Penilee is a small housing scheme and suburb on the southwestern edge of Glasgow, Scotland. The area is bounded to its east by the Glasgow suburbs of Cardonald and Hillington, and to the west by the Renfrewshire border and the farms of North and South Arkleston.
Cardonald
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cardonald is an outlying suburb of the Scottish city of Glasgow. Formerly a village in its own right, it lies to the southwest of the city and is bounded to the south by the White Cart Water.
Hillington
- Categories: district and locality
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.85076° or 55° 51′ 3″ northLongitude
-4.36212° or 4° 21′ 44″ westElevation
69 feet (21 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HTNOpen location code
9C7QVJ2Q+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 1475078561OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2646893Wikidata ID
Q5763320
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Hillington” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hillington (Glasgow)”
- Basque: “Hillington”
- Irish: “Hileantan”
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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 “Hillington”. Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.