Lightburn
Lightburn is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. It takes its name from the Light Burn which flows through the area, mostly in culvert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: district in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Lightburn, Glasgow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew’s Secondary School and Lightburn Hospital.
St Andrew’s Secondary School
School
St Andrew's Secondary School is an 11–18 mixed, Roman Catholic comprehensive secondary school in Glasgow, Scotland. Its catchment area includes much of the East End of the city, including such districts as Baillieston, Craigend, Cranhill, Easterhouse, Greenfield, Shettleston, Tollcross and Wellhouse.
Lightburn Hospital
Hospital
Lightburn Hospital is a health facility in Carntyne Road, Glasgow, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Carntyne railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carntyne railway station serves the Carntyne area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 2¾ miles east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenfield and Cranhill.
Greenfield
Suburb
Greenfield is a neighbourhood in the east end of the Scottish city of Glasgow, north of the River Clyde. The estate was built on the grounds of Greenfield House which was demolished to make way for the new scheme which was built in the 1960s.
Cranhill
Suburb
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Cranhill is an inner city district and housing scheme in the north east of Glasgow, Scotland. Cranhill was developed from public funding in the early 1950s and was originally, chiefly composed of four-storey tenement blocks surrounding a patch of grassland, which became Cranhill Park.
Budhill
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Budhill is a neighbourhood in the east end of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. It is situated between Springboig to the north-east, Greenfield to the north-west and Shettleston to the south.
Lightburn
- Categories: district and locality
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.85955° or 55° 51′ 34″ northLongitude
-4.16824° or 4° 10′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C7QVR5J+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 944972661OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q6546261
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In Other Languages
“Lightburn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lightburn (Glasgow)”
- Basque: “Lightburn”
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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 “Lightburn”. Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.