Hamiltonhill is a residential neighbourhood in the Scottish city of
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
, situated between
Possilpark to the north and east and
Port Dundas to the south. To the west of Hamiltonhill is a nature reserve bordering the
Forth and Clyde Canal
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowe ...
's Glasgow Branch section (with
Firhill Stadium
Firhill Stadium is a football and former rugby union, rugby league and greyhound racing stadium located in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland which has been the home of Partick Thistle since 1909. The stadium is commonly referred to as simp ...
on the opposite bank). The neighbourhood falls under the
Canal ward of
Glasgow City Council.
The area consisted primarily of ''Rehousing'' (low build quality) grey
reconstituted stone tenements from the 1930s. Many of these blocks were refurbished in the 1990s, but by the 2010s almost all had been demolished along with the local schools (''St Cuthbert's Primary'', which was relocated in 2012 to a new facility in
Ruchill Park
Ruchill Park is a public park in Ruchill, Glasgow, Scotland, approximately north-west of the city centre. It is adjacent to the former location of Ruchill Hospital on Bilsland Drive.
History
In 1892, Glasgow Corporation acquired the site of R ...
, closer to parts of the district where new homes had already been built) and ''Wester Common Primary''. Another new school complex for children residing locally, 'Keppoch Campus', was also constructed on the eastern side of Possilpark in the 2000s. Some
cottage flat
Cottage flats, also known as four-in-a-block flats, are a style of housing common in Scotland, where there are single floor dwellings at ground level, and similar dwellings on the floor above. All have doors directly to the outside of the buil ...
s dating from the same period as the tenements were retained, with the result that several clusters of surviving homes in Hamiltonhill were surrounded by expanses of empty waste ground in every direction.
In 2018, the local ''Queens Cross Housing Association'' published a renewal masterplan for the area involving over 600 new homes.
Plans to build 600 homes in derelict area of Glasgow takes step forward
Glasgow Live, 17 February 2020
References
External links
Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve
Areas of Glasgow
Housing estates in Glasgow
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