Neilston Pad
Neilston Pad, referred to locally as The Pad, is a distinctive hill in East Renfrewshire, situated a mile south of the village of Neilston. Its highest point is 261 metres and is characterised by a relatively flat summit plateau surrounded by steep slopes and distinctive forestry on its eastern side.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alec MacKinnon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Craighall Reservoir and Neilston railway station.
Craighall Reservoir
Reservoir
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Craighall Reservoir, known locally as Craighall Dam, is one of a number of small reservoirs, situated around Neilston in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The reservoir is located on the western slopes of Neilston Pad and has a number of well maintained public access paths.
Neilston railway station
Railway station
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Neilston railway station is a railway station in the village of Neilston, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Cathcart Circle Lines, 11+3⁄4 miles southwest of Glasgow Central.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neilston and Uplawmoor.
Neilston
Town
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Neilston is a village and parish in East Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the Levern Valley, two miles southwest of Barrhead, 3+3⁄4 miles south of Paisley, and 5+3⁄4 miles south-southwest of Renfrew, at the southwestern fringe of the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
Uplawmoor
Village
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Uplawmoor is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Its population was 700 as of 2016. Historic Uplawmoor, associated for centuries with the Barony of Caldwell and the Mure family, is still a vibrant community today, although bereft of the shops once to be found there.
Barrhead
Town
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Barrhead is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, thirteen kilometres southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes. At the 2011 census its population was 17,268.
Neilston Pad
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 856 feet
- Description: hill in Neilston, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.76553° or 55° 45′ 56″ northLongitude
-4.42968° or 4° 25′ 47″ westElevation
856 feet (261 metres)Open location code
9C7QQH8C+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 5308228230OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12615041Wikidata ID
Q106009528
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In Other Languages
“Neilston Pad” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Neilston Pad”
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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 “Neilston Pad”. Photo: Alec MacKinnon, CC BY-SA 2.0.