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 ...
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Scotland
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The village is on the Hawkhead Burn and
White Cart Water
The River Cart is a tributary of the River Clyde, Scotland, which it joins from the west roughly midway between the towns of Erskine, Renfrewshire, Erskine and Renfrew and opposite the town of Clydebank.
The River Cart itself is very short, bein ...
, crossed via Hawkhead Bridge. It is near Dykebar, Hunterhill and Blackhall neighbourhoods and is the source of the name of Hawkhead railway station on the Paisley Canal Line, although the station is some distance to the north of the residential area, on the opposite side of a cleared industrial zone (formerly a
BASF
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plant) and a large cemetery, also named Hawkhead.
History
The area's name is recorded as Halkhead in some older maps and in the historical title of Lord Ross of Halkhead, with the family owning the estate from the 14th century. Their seat was Hawkhead House, constructed in the 17th century and part of
Leverndale Hospital
Leverndale Hospital is a mental health facility at Crookston, Glasgow, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The , which has been taken out of use, is Category A listed.
History
The hospital, which was designed by Malcolm Star ...
from 1914 until it was demolished in 1953. Its nearby associated farm dating from the late 18th century still exists and is
Category C listed
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For a fuller list, see the pages linked on List of listed buildings in Scotland.
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since 1997, although its owner in the early 21st century was using the property as a scrapyard (having been banned from keeping animals due to neglect).
Following the death in 1754 of
William
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, the 14th and last Lord Ross, the Halkhead estates devolved upon his sisters and passed eventually into the family of the
Earls of Glasgow
Earl of Glasgow is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for David Boyle, Lord Boyle.
The first earl was subsequently one of the commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union uniting the Kingdom of England and the Kingd ...
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John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow
John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (4 November 1714 – 7 March 1775) was a Scottish nobleman.
Origins
Boyle was the third but eldest surviving son and heir of John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow, by Helenor Morrison, third daughter of William Morrison ...
had married Elizabeth Ross (16 April 1725 – 9 October 1791), the younger daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord Ross.Sir James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage'', Volume VII In 1815
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, GCH FRS (26 March 1766 – 6 July 1843), styled Lord Boyle until 1775, was a British peer.
He was the son of John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord ...
was created Baron Ross of Hawkhead,
The 1930s former
Hawkhead Hospital
Hawkhead Hospital was a health facility on Hawkhead Road in Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The complex is Grade B listed.
History
The facility, which was designed by Thomas S. Tait in the Art Deco style, opened as the Paisley Infectious Di ...
(separate from Hawkhead Asylum), which was designed by the modernist architect Thomas S. Tait, has been redeveloped as "Hawkhead Village". A secondary school, St Andrew's Academy is located a short way south of the hospital grounds, near the junction of Hawkhead Road and Barrhead Road (A726).
References
External links
* Lords Ross of Halkhead: Cited a thePeerage.com which accessed 18 July 2020.
* Barons Ross of Hawkhead: Cited a which accessed 18 July 2020
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Areas in Paisley, Renfrewshire