Rosshall is an area in the south-west of

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, Scotland, within the Cardonald ward of

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. It has a fairly isolated location, with the

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forming a border to the south and east, the Paisley Canal Line railway to the north, and open fields to the west that form a short

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between Glasgow and the large town of Paisley – the nearest building to the west, Rosshall Mains Farm, falls under Paisley administration rather than Glasgow.

Description

The origin of the name derives from the

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who owned the surrounding Hawkhead estate from the 13th to the end of the 19th century. In addition to a small cluster of post-World War II housing surrounding a

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, the main features of the area include the Rosshall Academy secondary school (built there in 2002 due to its central location between the two schools being merged to form it, at Penilee to the north and

Pollok 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 ha ...

to the south). Ross Hall Hospital, now a private healthcare facility, is based in the former

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of the same name (built 1877, at one time the residence of the owner of the Lobnitz shipyards on the

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), later the 'Scottish Hotel School' linked to the

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The Herald, 23 February 2000 According to residents of Cairnhill, the houses in the area used to be part of an assisted living scheme for patients at Leverndale Hospital. Rosshall Park (purchased by the city and opened to the public in the 1960s) was created from the estate grounds of the current mansion and includes the ruined remains of its predecessor 'Ross Hill'.

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runs through the park, which has a

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walled rock garden designed by James Pulham and Son. The estate's red sandstone stables block off the main road was adapted into apartments in the 1990s, Opposite the stables block on the main road is a

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, 'The Pines', a converted black-and-white painted Tudor-style mansion and physician's residence / surgery which has had its present function for several decades. Rosshall is part of the wider Crookston areaCrookston Heritage Trail

which includes two distinct localities, one immediately to the north of Rosshall including Crookston railway station and formed mostly by large suburban villas developed in the late 19th century, with the neighbourhoods of Ralston (in

Renfrewshire Renfrewshire () (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. Renfrewshire is located in the west central Lowlands. It borders East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire, and lies on the southern ba ...

) and

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) is an outlying suburb of the Scotlan ...

(in the City of Glasgow) at either end, and the other part – to the south of Rosshall via the ''Howford Bridge'' over the White Cart which also leads to Pollok and

Crookston Castle Crookston Castle is a ruined medieval castle in the Pollok area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located some south-west of the city centre, on a hill overlooking the Levern Water, just before its confluence with the White Cart Water. Crookston Ca ...

Glasgow, Howford Bridge
Canmore – comprising a sprawling development of modern suburban housing, including the original buildings of Leverndale Hospital now converted into apartments.

References

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South Cardonald and Crookston Community Council
* {{Areas of Glasgow Areas of Glasgow Parks and commons in Glasgow