Hawkhead ( sco, Hauchheid, gd, Ceann an Dail)
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Renfrewshire () ( sco, Renfrewshire; gd, Siorrachd Rinn Friù) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
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, Scotland
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.
The village is on the Hawkhead Burn and White Cart Water
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, crossed via Hawkhead Bridge. It is near Dykebar
Dykebar is a small residential estate at the south-easternmost periphery of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, close to the local authority boundaries with both East Renfrewshire and Glasgow. It is situated next to the Hawkhead area, with other ne ...
, 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
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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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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. John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow
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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
George Ross, 13th Lord Ross of Halkhead (8 April 1681 – 17 June 1754), was a Scottish nobleman.
Origins
Ross was the eldest son and heir of William Ross, 12th Lord Ross, who died in 1738, by Agnes, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wilkie of Fo ...
.[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 Ro ...
was created Baron Ross of Hawkhead,
The 1930s former Hawkhead Hospital (separate from Hawkhead Asylum), which was designed by the modernist architect Thomas S. Tait, has been redeveloped as "Hawkhead Village".
References
External links
* Lords Ross of Halkhead:
* Barons Ross of Hawkhead:
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Areas in Paisley, Renfrewshire