Pollokshields
Pollokshields is an area in the Southside of Glasgow, Scotland. Its modern boundaries are largely man-made, being formed by the M77 motorway to the west and northwest with the open land of Pollok Country Park and the Dumbreck neighbourhood beyond, by the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Pollokshields Burgh Hall and Glasgow Rangers.
Pollokshields Burgh Hall
Community center
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The Pollokshields Burgh Hall is a municipal building at the edge of Maxwell Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The burgh hall, which was briefly the headquarters of Pollokshields Burgh Council, is a Category A listed building.
Glasgow Rangers
Stadium
Photo: Archibald99, Public domain.
Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Scottish Premiership team Rangers, Ibrox is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-seated capacity of 51,700.
Maxwell Park railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dbrooke1829, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maxwell Park railway station is a railway station in Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland, adjacent to the park of the same name. The station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the Cathcart Circle Line, which has been electrified since 1962 by British Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kinning Park and Strathbungo.
Kinning Park
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinning Park is a southern suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It was formerly a separate police burgh between 1871 and 1905 before being absorbed by the city. In 1897, it had a population of 14,326.
Strathbungo
Suburb
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Strathbungo is a mainly residential area of southern Glasgow, Scotland, bordered by the neighbourhoods of Crossmyloof to the south, Govanhill to the east and Pollokshields to the north and west.
Crossmyloof
Suburb
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crossmyloof is an area on the south side of Glasgow situated between the districts of Pollokshields, Strathbungo and Shawlands in Scotland.
Pollokshields
- Type: Suburb with 9,740 residents
- Description: district in the Southside of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Categories: police burgh of Scotland and locality
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.84227° or 55° 50′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.285° or 4° 17′ 6″ westPopulation
9,740Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PLLOpen location code
9C7QRPR8+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 575520OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scots—“Pollokshields” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pollokshields”
- Irish: “Buthan Phollaig”
- Japanese: “ポロックシールズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pollokshields”
- Norwegian: “Pollokshields”
- Scots: “Pollokshields”
- Scots: “Powkshiels”
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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 “Pollokshields”. Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.