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Hillhead subway station

Hillhead subway station is a station on the Glasgow Subway, serving the area of , Scotland, and is the principal station that serves the city's .
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Photo: Paul Harrop, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: subway station in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Hillhead SPT Subway Station”
  • Address: Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8SH
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow.

Museum
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
owned by Glasgow City Council is a major museum and art gallery in the area of , Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. is situated 2,500 feet south of Hillhead subway station.

Library
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 670 feet northeast of Hillhead subway station.

Pub
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , formerly the Curlers Tavern, is the oldest drinking establishment on Byres Road, , Scotland. A tavern is said to have been situated at this site since the 17th century, when this part of the city was still countryside.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hillhead and Dowanhill.

Suburb
Photo: Finlay McWalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area of , Scotland. Situated north of and to the south of the , is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable , with Byres Road forming the western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the to the east and north.

Suburb
is an affluent area in the West End of , Scotland. An upper middle-class residential district, the area generally contains a mixture of terraced townhouses with private communal gardens, detached villas with private grounds and a number of four-storey tenement buildings.

Quarter
is a residential district of the city of . It is often regarded as a subdistrict of , sharing its G20 postcode, as well as its House of Commons electoral constituency prior to incorporation into Glasgow North in 2005.

Hillhead subway station

Latitude
55.87525° or 55° 52′ 31″ north
Longitude
-4.29339° or 4° 17′ 36″ west
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
Operator
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Network
Glasgow Subway
Open location code
9C7QVPG4+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26997597
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
7701286
Wiki­data ID
Q3269432
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In Other Languages

From Czech to Ukrainian—“Hillhead subway station” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Hillhead”
  • Finnish: “Hillheadin metroasema”
  • French: “Hillhead”
  • Italian: “Hillhead (metropolitana di Glasgow)”
  • Italian: “Hillhead”
  • Japanese: “ヒルヘッド駅”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hillhead undergrunnsstasjon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hillhead undergrunnstasjon”
  • Norwegian: “Hillhead undergrunnsstasjon”
  • Russian: “Хиллхед”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіллхед”

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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 “Hillhead subway station”. Photo: Paul Harrop, CC BY-SA 2.0.