| Househillwood | |
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 Hartstone Road | |
  Househillwood Location within Glasgow | |
| OS grid reference | NS530611 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Glasgow |
| Postcode district | G53 6 |
| Dialling code | 0141 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Househillwood is a residential neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland, situated in the south-west of the city.
Househillwood is close to the centre of the Pollok district and is often considered to be part of 'Greater Pollok' (a ward of Glasgow City Council), although the construction of Househillwood in the 1930s (about 800 homes) [1] predates the Pollok scheme's main period of building after World War II. It was also established prior to the adjoining neighbourhoods to the south, Priesthill and Craigbank (the latter generally considered part of Nitshill). Maps of these areas show a continuation of streets and a similar building style, namely cottage flats and terraced houses, [1] but at ground level there are noticeable differences between the designs of the different decades, the final streets belonging to Househillwood being Brock Road and Hartstone Road. The layout of the streets is fairly symmetrical, with the main Peat Road running through the centre of the neighbourhood. [1] The only modern housing, developed in 2016, is built on the site of a school. [2]
It is flanked to the west by Househill Park, which features a play area and small rose garden with the Levern Water flowing through it, and was the location of Hous'hill, the local country house [3] [4] (dating from the early 1800s and once home to team room entrepreneur Catherine Cranston) [5] until its demolition following a fire, shortly before the building of the housing estate [5] – the rest of the surrounding land in the area was open woodland or farmers' fields. [3] To the east is the Silverburn Centre (a large 'out of town' retail, dining and cinema complex) [6] [7] and the Brock Burn; [8] the two waters converge a short distance to the north.
There are few amenities in Househillwood itself, with the closest churches [9] [10] [11] and schools [12] [13] [14] located in Priesthill and Craigbank along with the local housing office, [15] and others (health centre, library, sports centre, bus station) at the Pollok civic realm immediately to the north adjacent to Silverburn. [16] [17] [18] [19] The closest railway stations are Nitshill and Priesthill & Darnley, both located to the south on the Glasgow South Western Line.
Actor Alex Norton and newspaper columnist Tom Shields (The Herald 'Diary') were brought up in the area. [20]
Nitshill is a district on the south side of Glasgow. It is bordered by South Nitshill to the south, Darnley to the east, Crookston and Roughmussel to the north-west, Hurlet to the west and Househillwood and Priesthill to the north, with the Pollok district and the Silverburn Centre beyond. An area of open ground to the south-west of Nitshill forms the boundary between Glasgow and the town of Barrhead in East Renfrewshire.
Pollok is a large housing estate on the south-western side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate was built either side of World War II to house families from the overcrowded inner city. Housing 30,000 at its peak, its population has since declined due to the replacement of substandard housing with lower-density accommodation.
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Crookston is a residential suburb on the southwestern edge of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Oatlands is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated south of the River Clyde, falls within the Southside Central ward under Glasgow City Council, and is part of the Gorbals historic area. Its boundaries are Hutchesontown and the Southern Necropolis cemetery to the west, Polmadie to the south, Shawfield to the east, and Glasgow Green public park to the north.
Priesthill is a neighbourhood in the south of the River Clyde in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It falls under the Greater Pollok ward of the city council area. The Darnley neighbourhood is located to the south, on the opposite side of the Glasgow South Western Line railway, while Nitshill lies to the west and Househillwood and the Silverburn Centre shopping complex to the north. The M77 motorway runs to the east of Priesthill with open farmland beyond.
South Nitshill is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, in the south-west of the conurbation and within the Greater Pollok ward of the local authority area. All streets in the area have names beginning with 'W'.
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Jenny Lind is a small neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, contiguous with the larger Deaconsbank neighbourhood and across a dual carriageway from the Arden and Thornliebank Industrial Estate. It was extended slightly in the 21st century by the addition of Jenny Lind Court. Jenny Lind falls under the Glasgow City Council Greater Pollok ward and has a short border with Deaconsbank Golf Club and Rouken Glen Park in the East Renfrewshire council region.
St Paul's High School is a co-educational, Roman Catholic comprehensive secondary school located in Pollok, Glasgow, Scotland. It was built on the site of, and using some buildings from, the former Craigbank Secondary School, to replace the previous Catholic school in the area, Bellarmine Secondary, opening with its new identity in 2002.
Greater Pollok is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Since its creation in 2007 it has returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system.
Parkhouse is a residential neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland. Within the G53 postcode area and the Greater Pollok ward of the Glasgow City Council administration, the eastern cluster of private housing was constructed in the 1980s and the western part in the 2010s, prior to which it was open farmland annexed to Glasgow in 1938.
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Sandyford is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is north of the River Clyde and forms part of the western periphery of the city centre. Formerly the name of a ward under Glasgow Town Council in the first part of the 20th century, it is within a continuous area of fairly dense urban development bordering several other neighbourhoods whose mutual boundaries have blurred over time, and is possibly less well known than all of the places which adjoin it, particularly Anderston and Finnieston.