Townhead
Townhead is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of Glasgow's oldest areas, and contains two of its major surviving medieval landmarks – Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Glasgow Cathedral and Glasgow Queen Street railway station.
Glasgow Cathedral
Church
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Glasgow Cathedral is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. It was the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the province of Glasgow, from the 12th century until the Scottish Reformation in the 16th century.
Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line terminals; the larger is Glasgow Central.
George Square
Square
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George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of six squares in the city centre, the others being Cathedral Square, St Andrew's Square, St Enoch Square, Royal Exchange Square, and Blythswood Square on Blythswood Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasgow and Sighthill.
Glasgow
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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Sighthill
Suburb
Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sighthill is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde and is part of the wider Springburn district in the north of the city.
Cowcaddens
Suburb
Photo: Hwyndham, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cowcaddens is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It sits directly north of the city centre and is bordered by the newer area of Garnethill to the south-west and Townhead to the east.
Townhead
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.86614° or 55° 51′ 58″ northLongitude
-4.24265° or 4° 14′ 34″ westElevation
144 feet (44 metres)Open location code
9C7QVQ84+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1459908748OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Townhead” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Townhead”
- Catalan: “Townhead”
- French: “Townhead”
- Irish: “Ceann a‘ Bhaile”
- Irish: “Ceann a’ Bhaile”
- Irish: “Ceann-bhaile”
- Scots: “Tounheid”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann a‘ Bhaile”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann-bhaile”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Townhead”
- “Ceann-bhaile”
- “Townhead”
- “Townhead - Ceann-bhaile”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Townhead”. Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.