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Hillhead

Hillhead is an area of , Scotland. Situated north of and to the south of the , Hillhead 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.
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Photo: Finlay McWalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Suburb with 24,600 residents
  • Description: district of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Hillhead, Glasgow”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.

Museum
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owned by Glasgow City Council is a major museum and art gallery in the area of , Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums.

Museum
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The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in . It is the oldest museum in Scotland. It covers the Hunterian Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum, which are all located in various buildings on the main campus of the university in the west end of Glasgow.

Garden
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is a botanical garden located in the of , . It features several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Kelvinside and Dowanhill.

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.

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.

Suburb
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The of the West End of Glasgow, Scotland, is an affluent area located around Park Circus, which sits atop Woodlands Hill, beside .

Hillhead

Latitude
55.87562° or 55° 52′ 32″ north
Longitude
-4.2871° or 4° 17′ 14″ west
Population
24,600
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
Open location code
9C7QVPG7+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 440027514
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
13267199
Wiki­data ID
Q15224070
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Hillhead” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Hillhead”
  • Chinese: “黑爾希德”
  • French: “Hillhead”
  • Irish: “Ceann a‘ Chnuic”
  • Irish: “Ceann a’ Chnuic”
  • Spanish: “Hillhead”

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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”. Photo: Finlay McWalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.