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Maryhill () is an area in the north-west of
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in
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. A former independent
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and the heart of an eponymous local authority ward, its territory is bisected by Maryhill Road, part of the
A81 road The A81 road is a major road in Scotland. It runs from Glasgow to Callander via Woodside, Glasgow, Woodside and Maryhill within the city, as well as Bearsden, Milngavie and Strathblane, a total of . The A81 has been ranked among the five most ...
which runs for a distance of roughly between Glasgow city centre and the suburban town of
Bearsden Bearsden ( ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow, approximately from the Glasgow city centre, city centre. The Roman Empire, Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town, and the remains of ...
. The far north west of the area is served by
Maryhill railway station Maryhill railway station is a railway station serving the Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Maryhill Line, northwest of , a short distance east of Maryhill Viaduct and Maryhill Park Junction. It has two side platforms. ...
.


History

Hew Hill, the
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, or Lord, of Gairbraid, had no male heir and so he left his estate to his daughter, Mary Hill (1730–1809). She married Robert Graham of Dawsholm in 1763, but they had no income from trade or commerce and had to make what they could from the estate. They founded coalmines on the estate but they proved to be wet and unprofitable. On 8 March 1768 Parliament approved the cutting of 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 allow ...
through their estate, which provided some much-needed money. The canal reached the estate in 1775, but the canal company had run out of money and work stopped for eight years. The Government granted funds from forfeited Jacobite estates to start it again and the crossing of the
River Kelvin The River Kelvin () is a tributary of the River Clyde in northern and northeastern Glasgow, Scotland. It rises on the moor south east of the village of Banton, Scotland, Banton, east of Kilsyth. At almost long, it initially flows south to D ...
became the focus for massive construction activity. Five locks, the great
Kelvin Aqueduct The Kelvin Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct in Glasgow, Scotland, which carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin. History It was designed by Robert Whitworth, one of John Smeaton's supervising engineers on the Forth and Clyde C ...
and, between two of the locks, a
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boatyard were built. A village too began to grow up and the Grahams provided more land for its development; Robert Graham attached one condition that was to immortalise the heiress of Gairbraid, his wife and the last in line of centuries of Hills of Gairbraid after the death of her father Hew Hill. The then village was to be "in all times called the town of MaryHill". The new canal waterway attracted industries including boat-building, saw-milling and ironfounding to its banks within Mary's estate. By 1830 the scattered houses had grown to form a large village with a population of 3000. The building of the
Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway The Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway was independently sponsored to build along the north of the River Clyde. It opened in 1858, joining with an earlier local line serving Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, Balloch. Both were taken over by ...
passing through Maryhill in the 1850s. The proximity of the
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pipeline led to further growth, and in 1856 Maryhill became a burgh in its own right. It was absorbed into the boundaries of the city of Glasgow in 1891. Part of the
Antonine Wall The Antonine Wall () was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twenty years after Hadrian's Wall to the south ...
runs through Maryhill, in the Maryhill Park area, where there is the site of a
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adjoining the wall in nearby
Bearsden Bearsden ( ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow, approximately from the Glasgow city centre, city centre. The Roman Empire, Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town, and the remains of ...
. A Roman bath-house may still be seen there. Maryhill had one of the first
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in Scotland after lawlessness filled the streets in the Victorian era. Maryhill also boasts one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, designed by the Inverness architect
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.
Maryhill Barracks Maryhill () is an area in the north-west of Glasgow in Scotland. A former independent burgh and the heart of an eponymous local authority ward, its territory is bisected by Maryhill Road, part of the A81 road which runs for a distance of ro ...
was opened in 1872 and once dominated the area that is now the
Wyndford Wyndford is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Located northwest of the city centre in Maryhill, Wyndford is bounded by Maryhill Road to the north and the River Kelvin to the south. The area comprises council housing that is typical of t ...
housing estate. It was home to the
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and the
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, and held
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's second-in-command
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during World War II after his supposed "peace" flight to the UK. The barracks were decommissioned in 1959 and demolished in 1961. However the Territorial Army unit, the 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion, the
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continues to be based at the adjacent Walcheren Barracks. The Glasgow Industrial School for Girls moved to Maryhill in 1882.


Geography

The Maryhill district has several sub-districts, such as Acre,
Botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
, Dawsholm Park,
Firhill Firhill Stadium, also known as Wyre Stadium at Firhill for sponsorship reasons, 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 ...
, Gairbraid,
Gilshochill Gilshochill ( ; ) is located to the north west of Maryhill in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Immediately north of Maryhill basin and Maryhill locks, it is the district where the Bowling and Port Dundas branches of the Forth and Clyde Canal mee ...
,
Maryhill Park Maryhill () is an area in the north-west of Glasgow in Scotland. A former independent burgh and the heart of an eponymous local authority ward, its territory is bisected by Maryhill Road, part of the A81 road which runs for a distance of rou ...
,
North Kelvinside North Kelvinside (also referred to as North Kelvin, ) is a residential district of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is often regarded as a subdistrict of Maryhill, sharing its G20 postcode, as well as its House of Commons electoral constituency ...
, Queen's Cross, St George's Cross,
Cadder Cadder (Scottish Gaelic: ''Coille Dobhair'') is a district of the town of Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located 7 km north of Glasgow city centre, 0.5 km south of the River Kelvin, and approximately 1.5 km nor ...
,
Summerston Summerston is a residential area of Glasgow, Scotland. With most of the housing constructed in the 1970s, it is situated in the far north of the city and is considered to be part of the larger Maryhill district, but has a different postcode; oth ...
, Woodside and
Wyndford Wyndford is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Located northwest of the city centre in Maryhill, Wyndford is bounded by Maryhill Road to the north and the River Kelvin to the south. The area comprises council housing that is typical of t ...
.


Governance

Maryhill is part of the Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn constituency in the
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and of Maryhill Ward (Ward 15) on Glasgow City Council. Glasgow Maryhill was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the
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from 1918 until 2005 when it was subsumed into the new Glasgow North constituency. Maryhill Ward is a multi-member Ward and has three Councillors: Abdul Bostani (SNP), Keiran O'Neill (Labour) and Franny Scally (SNP). The MSP for Maryhill and Springburn is Bob Doris and the MP for Glasgow North is Patrick Grady.


Demography

The population of the Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn constituency was 73,493 as of 2015 and the population as of 2013 of the Maryhill/Kelvin Ward was 27,125. Although the population is predominantly White Scottish/British (22,784), Maryhill is ethnically diverse. The largest of the other ethnic groups are Chinese and African (664 and 660 respectively).


Economy

Although historically a
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area, as of 2013 there are more people employed in professional services than in manufacturing, construction and utilities in Maryhill. , the working-age population (16–64) was 18,770. Of these, 13,237 were economically active. According to the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, the level of income deprivation in Glasgow North West is 24%, while the figure for Maryhill is slightly higher at 25%.


Housing

Many areas in the north of Glasgow are below the normal UK standard of living. However, not all areas of North Glasgow are in poor condition. Maryhill is in the north west of the city, and consists of well maintained traditionally "Glaswegian" sandstone tenements with the traditional high ceilings as well as many large Victorian town houses. There are also large housing association-run
housing estates A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular through ...
. The district contains the
Wyndford Wyndford is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Located northwest of the city centre in Maryhill, Wyndford is bounded by Maryhill Road to the north and the River Kelvin to the south. The area comprises council housing that is typical of t ...
and Gairbraid estate, a housing estate with a population of almost 5,000, containing a number of high-rise housing blocks, the highest four reaching heights of 26 storeys. These are intermixed with lower residences to create an estate of significant housing contrast and variety. In June 2024, planning consent was submitted to
Glasgow City Council Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: ''Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu'') is the Local government in Scotland, local government authority for Glasgow, Glasgow City council area, Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was former ...
for the redevelopment of part of the area, specifically for new homes on waste ground between Gilshochill and Summerston where derelict mid-20th century apartment blocks and terraced houses had been demolished a decade earlier.


Sport

Maryhill is the home of
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, which has been the home ground of
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club
Partick Thistle Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football, football club from Glasgow, Scotland and currently plays in the . Despite their name, the club are based at Firhill Stadium in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not ...
since 1909. Originally from the burgh of
Partick Partick (, Scottish Gaelic: ''Partaig'') is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch, to the east Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Park (across the River Kelvin), and to the north Broo ...
, the club moved to the Maryhill area in 1909 after struggling to find a new home nearer Partick. It was also a temporary home for Clyde and
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during the 1980s and 1990s, and for Queens Park matches in 2021–22 while the club awaited development of their new stadium at
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. Between 2005 and 2012, Firhill was also the home of professional
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team
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who then moved to
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. The
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(formerly
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) team,
Maryhill F.C. Maryhill Football Club are an association football team based in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland. The team is a member of the Scottish Junior Football Association, now playing in the West of Scotland Football League Second Division in th ...
, and Glasgow's oldest athletic club Maryhill Harriers are also located in the area.


Architecture, canalside and modernisation

Ruchill Church Hall was designed by
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macd ...
. 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 allow ...
flows through Maryhill, at one stage forming a vital part of the local economy. It was for many years polluted and largely unused after the decline of heavy industry, but recent efforts to regenerate and re-open the canal to navigation have seen it rejuvenated. A new footbridge providing better connections to the Ruchill and Gilshochill neighbourhoods, was installed across the canal at
Stockingfield Junction Stockingfield Junction is a canal junction which lies between Maryhill and Ruchill in Glasgow, Scotland. It opened in 1777,Hume, p.162 and closed in 1963, followed by restoration and a re-opening in 2022. At first a terminus it formed the junct ...
in 2022. Twenty unique
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s were produced by Stephen Adam in 1878 for the Maryhill Burgh Halls, depicting the many varied industries and occupations of Maryhill's inhabitants. The Burgh Halls, part of a complex of listed buildings including the former Baths & Wash-houses, the former Fire Station, and former Police Station, were restored in a £9.2M regeneration project, and a number of the original stained glass windows have been on display since late 2011. The Maryhill Lochs were the venue for the 2017 Red Bull Neptune Race on 18 March that year.


Subdivisions


Botany

Botany () is an area in Maryhill. One explanation for the name of the area that it was viewed as a rougher part of the then village of Maryhill, with many rough-and-tumble lodging houses and public houses, and many of its residents were expected to be deported to
Botany Bay Botany Bay (Dharawal language, Dharawal: ''Kamay'') is an open oceanic embayment, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district. Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point a ...
in
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, then acting as a
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. However, a more prosaic explanation is that there was a school in the area known as the Botany School, now long closed, but the name survived. James Patrick ''A Glasgow Gang Observed'' This reputation for being a rough area did not lessen over the years, with Botany (commonly referred to as 'The Butney' by local people) having many social problems of deprivation, unemployment and drug abuse. The local gang was known as "The Butny". The area has been completely cleared by the city council and is under construction for new modern apartment flats along with many other areas of Maryhill. From 2018 on, the area's name is preserved by a local bar at Maryhill Road 795 which has been named ''The Botany''. In April 2024 the business has been sold to industry veteran Jack Quirk. After a refurbishment it reopened in May, now renamed to Café Ibiza.


Maryhill Park

Maryhill Park () is an area of Maryhill. Unlike much of the rest of Maryhill, the population is predominantly middle-class and the property type in the area consists mainly of Victorian semi-detached town houses. The Maryhill Locks, a steeply-descending series of pools on the
Forth & 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 allow ...
are nearby. The present day
Maryhill railway station Maryhill railway station is a railway station serving the Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Maryhill Line, northwest of , a short distance east of Maryhill Viaduct and Maryhill Park Junction. It has two side platforms. ...
was at one stage called ''Maryhill Park'' to distinguish it from the Maryhill railway station that then existed further down Maryhill Road (near the
Wyndford Wyndford is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Located northwest of the city centre in Maryhill, Wyndford is bounded by Maryhill Road to the north and the River Kelvin to the south. The area comprises council housing that is typical of t ...
area of Maryhill). Both stations were closed as part of the
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of the 1960s, and when the former Maryhill Park station was reopened in the 1990s the "''Park''" part of the title was dropped as the other station was not reopened. The area is also served by numerous bus routes along Maryhill Road.


Queen's Cross

Queen's Cross is a neighbourhood in the area of Maryhill mostly made up of working class social housing, mainly owned by Queens Cross Housing Association, the local housing authority named for the area. The cross is the junction where Maryhill Road and Garscube Road meet extending south to the neighbouring areas of
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and
Cowcaddens Cowcaddens (; , )
is an area of the city of
respectively. The area's Queen's Cross Church designed by Glasgow architect
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also serves as the headquarters of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society.


Maryhill in the media

Maryhill has been the location for a number of television programmes and films, namely: * A short-lived 1960s TV soap ''High Living'' created by (then) Cowcaddens-based
Scottish Television Scottish Television (now legally known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV (TV network), ITV network franchisee for Central Belt, Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation si ...
was set in a tower block in the
Wyndford Wyndford is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Located northwest of the city centre in Maryhill, Wyndford is bounded by Maryhill Road to the north and the River Kelvin to the south. The area comprises council housing that is typical of t ...
area of Maryhill, however as a totally studio-based drama, it relied on pictures of the flats as part of the opening and closing title sequences. * ''
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'', an internationally famous Glaswegian detective television programme, which is translated into many languages including
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and
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is set and filmed in Maryhill. * ''
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'', a cafe in Maryhill was used as a set in ''Trainspotting'', Jaconelli's at the Queens Cross area. Also, Crosslands on Queen Margaret Drive was the pub where Begbie started a fight by throwing a glass over his head into a crowded bar. * The hit
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television comedy series ''
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'' was filmed in the area, a precedent followed by its successor the
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''
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''.


Notable people

* Jamesina Anderson, politician *
Bertie Auld Robert Auld (23 March 1938 – 14 November 2021) was a Scottish football player and manager. He was a member of Celtic's Lisbon Lions, who won the 1967 European Cup Final. As a player, he made more than 200 appearances in the Scottish League ...
, footballer *
Maggie Bell Margaret Bell (born 12 January 1945) is a Scottish vocalist. She came to fame as co-lead vocalist of the blues rock group Stone the Crows, and was described as the UK's closest counterpart to American singer Janis Joplin. Bell was also promine ...
, blues-rock singer *
Sean Biggerstaff Sean Biggerstaff (born 15 March 1983) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing Oliver Wood in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, appearing in ''Philosopher's Stone'' (2001), '' Chamber of Secrets'' (2002), and '' Deathly Hallows – P ...
, actor *
Robert Carlyle Robert Carlyle (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish actor. His film work includes: '' Trainspotting'' (1996), '' The Full Monty'' (1997), '' Ravenous'' and ''The World Is Not Enough'' (both 1999), '' There's Only One Jimmy Grimble'' (2000), '' ...
, actor *
Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles ...
, singer-songwriter * Jim Duffy, footballer * John Maxwell Geddes (1941–2017), composer * Archibald Lyle, footballer * Duncan Macrae, actor *
Ian McAteer Ian Douglas McAteer (born November 1961) is a Scottish former gangster who was a prominent figure in the Glasgow and Liverpool criminal underworlds during the later 20th century. McAteer accumulated various convictions, and in 2001 was sentenced ...
, Dalmuir-born former gangster *
David McCallum David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) was a Scottish actor and musician, based in the United States. He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series '' The Man fr ...
, actor and musician *
Charlie Nicholas Charles Nicholas (born 30 December 1961) is a Scottish former professional footballer. A striker, Nicholas is best known for his spells at Celtic and Arsenal. He won 20 international caps for Scotland, including playing at the 1986 FIFA World C ...
, footballer * Jerry Reynolds, footballer * George Ritchie, footballer *
Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin (born 8 August 1944) is a British businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999, appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer ...
, businessman *
Soom T Sumati Bhardwaj (born 17 June 1979), better known by her stage name Soom T, is a Scottish reggae singer, rapper, record label director and activist. She is nicknamed the "Raggamuffin Queen." Biography Soom T was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Sco ...
, reggae singer and rapper


See also

* Forth to Firth Canal Pathway *
Glasgow tower blocks Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings. Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, deindustrialisation and growing poverty in th ...


References


External links

*
Unlocking Maryhill – A history of its places and people
at ''Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End'' {{authority control Areas of Glasgow Burghs