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East Renfrewshire

Giffnock

Giffnock is a town and the administrative centre of in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies 3.7 miles east of , 5.6 miles east-southeast of and 5.3 miles northwest of , at the southwest of the .
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  • Type: Town with 16,200 residents
  • Description: town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Giffneck”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Giffnock railway station and Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the town of Giffnock, . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line.

Synagogue
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The , commonly known as Giffnock Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 222 Fenwick Road in Giffnock, , on the south side of , , in the United Kingdom.

Railway station
Photo: Alan Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station serving the village of , on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line. The station is managed by ScotRail, which provides all services at the station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mansewood and Merrylee.

Suburb
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is a residential district in the city of . It is situated south of the and is surrounded by the districts of , , in Glasgow, and and Giffnock in .

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of . It is situated south of the within the Newlands/Auldburn ward surrounded by other residential areas: , and , and is a housing scheme consisting of mostly ex-local authority homes constructed in the 1950s and 60s.

Suburb
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is an area in the city of , Scotland. It is situated south of the . is located within the neighbourhood, which is surrounded by other mainly residential areas such as , , and .

Giffnock

Latitude
55.80483° or 55° 48′ 17″ north
Longitude
-4.29467° or 4° 17′ 41″ west
Population
16,200
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GFF
Open location code
9C7QRP34+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28219991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648683
Wiki­data ID
Q1016935
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yiddish—“Giffnock” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Գիֆնոկ”
  • Asturian: “Giffnock”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qiffnok”
  • Basque: “Giffnock”
  • Belarusian: “Гіфнак”
  • Bengali: “গিফনক”
  • Breton: “Giffnock”
  • Breton: “Giofnag”
  • Catalan: “Giffnock”
  • Cebuano: “Giffnock”
  • Chinese: “吉夫诺克”
  • Chinese: “吉夫諾克”
  • Czech: “Giffnock”
  • Dutch: “Giffnock”
  • French: “Giffnock”
  • German: “Giffnock”
  • Gujarati: “ગિફનોક”
  • Hebrew: “גיפנוק”
  • Irish: “Giofnag”
  • Italian: “Giffnock”
  • Japanese: “ギフノック”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಫ್ನಾಕ್”
  • Korean: “기프넉”
  • Lithuanian: “Gifnokas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Giffnock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giffnock”
  • Norwegian: “Giffnock”
  • Persian: “گیفناک”
  • Polish: “Giffnock”
  • Portuguese: “Giffnock”
  • Russian: “Гифнок”
  • Russian: “Гиффнок”
  • Scots: “Giffnock”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Giofnag”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Giffnock”
  • Slovenian: “Giffnock”
  • Spanish: “Giffnock”
  • Swedish: “Giffnock”
  • Tamil: “கிப்ப்பினோக்”
  • Telugu: “గిఫ్ఫ్నాక్”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіффнок”
  • Urdu: “جیفنوک”
  • Welsh: “Giffnock”
  • Welsh: “Giofnag”
  • Yiddish: “גיפנאק”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Giffnock Village Store and Giffnock Public Library.

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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 “Giffnock”. Photo: John McLeish, CC BY-SA 2.0.