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Glasgow, Scotstoun, General
General View
Site Name Glasgow, Scotstoun, General
Classification General View
Canmore ID 70159
Site Number NS56NW 110
NGR NS 5298 6765
NGR Description Centred NS 5298 6765
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/70159
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Renfrew (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
SCOTSTOUN
The estate, with its early 18th-century mansion, was acquired from the Walkinshaw family by the Oswalds, who extended the Mansion, 1825, David Hamilton. Although Charles Connell's shipyard was started in 1861, the southern end of the Scotstoun estate was not developed for terraced housing until 1886. Yarrow's shipyard had relocated to the Clyde in 1906 because of high rates and labour costs at their former yard on the Thames, but the north of Scotstoun was still undeveloped when Glasgow Corporation bought the remainder in the 1920s to build a low-density suburban estate. The mansion survived in a small park until multistorey flats were built in the 1960s. Today Scotstoun is largely composed of an early 20th-century housing scheme of pleasant low-rise tenement houses.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NS56NW 110 centred 5298 6765
