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Parkhead is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road and Westmuir Street.
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Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Celtic Park and The Forge Shopping Centre.

Stadium
Photo: Zhi Yong Lee, CC BY 2.0.
is a and the home of Scottish Premiership team Celtic, in the Parkhead area of , Scotland. With a capacity of 60,832, it is the largest football stadium in Scotland, and the eighth-largest football stadium in the United Kingdom.

Shopping center
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in the East End of , in Parkhead. The shopping centre bore the name from the former William Beardmore and Company steel works site, which had closed in 1983.

Stadium
Photo: Nicola, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , known for sponsorship reasons as the Emirates Arena, is an indoor arena and velodrome in , , Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newbank and Camlachie.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the East End of , Scotland, near the home ground of Celtic F.C. It sits just north of the , adjacent to Parkhead, and is bounded to the south by London Road.

Suburb
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is an area of in Scotland, located in the East End of the city, between to the north, and to the south. Formerly a weaving village on the Burn, it then developed as an important industrial suburb from the late 19th century, only to almost entirely disappear from the landscape when those industries declined a century later.

Suburb
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a residential neighbourhood in , Scotland. It is situated in the east end of the city, north of the . The housing includes tenements, former council houses and several more recently constructed homes.

Parkhead

Latitude
55.85124° or 55° 51′ 5″ north
Longitude
-4.19685° or 4° 11′ 49″ west
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
Open location code
9C7QVR23+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29791602
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
13266705
Wiki­data ID
Q3134367
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Swedish—“Parkhead” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Parkhed”
  • Basque: “Parkhead”
  • Bulgarian: “Паркхеад”
  • Cebuano: “Parkhead”
  • Chinese: “帕克海德”
  • Chinese: “帕克黑德”
  • Dutch: “Parkhead”
  • French: “Parkhead”
  • Greek: “Πάρκχεντ”
  • Irish: “Parkhead”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parkhead”
  • Norwegian: “Parkhead”
  • Scots: “Pairkheid”
  • Scots: “Parkhead”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Parkhead”
  • Slovenian: “Parkhead”
  • Spanish: “Parkhead”
  • Swedish: “Parkhead”

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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 “Parkhead”. Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.