Hawkhead
Hawkhead is an area near Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The village is on the Hawkhead Burn and White Cart Water, crossed via Hawkhead Bridge. It is near Dykebar, Hunterhill and Blackhall neighbourhoods and is the source of the name…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawkhead railway station and St Andrew’s Academy.
Hawkhead railway station
Railway station
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Hawkhead railway station is a railway station in the Seedhill area of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Paisley Canal Line, 6½ miles west of Glasgow Central.
St Andrew’s Academy
School
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Academy is a Catholic secondary school in Paisley. The school was opened in 1990, with its importance growing in 2001 when St Mirin's and St Margaret's High School closed.
St Mirin’s Cathedral
Church
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The Cathedral Church of Saint Mirin in Paisley, dedicated to Saint Mirin the patron saint of Paisley, is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Paisley and is the seat of the Bishop of Paisley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ralston and Rosshall.
Ralston
Suburb
Ralston is a small, middle-class, suburban settlement in Renfrewshire, Scotland, being part of the greater town of Paisley. The district straddles the A761, the main dual-carriageway between Renfrewshire and the City of Glasgow.
Rosshall
Quarter
Photo: Lairich Rig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosshall is an area in the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland, within the Cardonald ward of Glasgow City Council. It has a fairly isolated location, with the White Cart Water forming a border to the south and east, the Paisley Canal Line railway to the north…
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.
Hawkhead
- Type: Suburb with 968 residents
- Description: area near Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.83583° or 55° 50′ 9″ northLongitude
-4.3947° or 4° 23′ 41″ westPopulation
968Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
9C7QRJP4+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 6543287941OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2647292Wikidata ID
Q1008947
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Hawkhead” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hawkhead”
- Japanese: “ホークヘッド”
- Swedish: “Hawkhead”
- Welsh: “Hawkhead”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Blackhall and Dykebar.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hawkhead Cemetery and Jenny’s Well Nature Reserve.
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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 “Hawkhead”. Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.