Parkhouse is a residential neighbourhood of

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, Scotland close to the border with

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. It is located on the south-western edge of the city, close to the towns of

Barrhead Barrhead (, ) is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes. At the 2011 census its population was 17,268. History Barrhead was formed when a series of small textile-produ ...

and

Newton Mearns Newton Mearns ( ) is a suburban town and the largest settlement in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It lies southwest of Glasgow City Centre on the A77 road, main road to Ayrshire, above sea level. It has a population of approximately 26,993, stre ...

in East Renfrewshire. Within the G53 postcode area and the Greater Pollok ward of the

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administration, the eastern cluster of private housing was constructed in the 1980s (branching off Craigflower Road) and the western part in the 2010s, prior to which it was open farmland annexed to Glasgow in 1938. It is one of two places in Glasgow called Parkhouse, the other being an older housing development near Milton in the far north of the city. However, they are rarely confused as neither is particularly well known outside local circles, and wider discussions of issues affecting the neighbourhoods take place under the names of their wider wards or constituencies.

Location and history

Parkhouse forms part of the edge of the Glasgow urban area, occupying an area of land to the south of Parkhouse Road (B773), a main route running east–west between southern Glasgow and the town of

which lies about to the west. Named after the long-established Parkhouse Farm, which still stands beside the western end of its Glasgow portion, the thoroughfare becomes Darnley Road once in East Renfrewshire. During

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, an

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was set up on open land which roughly corresponds to Langford Drive; no traces of this facility survive. On the northern side of Parkhouse Road is

South Nitshill South Nitshill () is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, in the south-west of the conurbation and within the Greater Pollok ward of the local authority area. All streets in the area have name ...

, a 1950s council housing scheme which was almost entirely redeveloped in the early 21st century, so that its new homes were constructed more recently than many of those in the more recently established Parkhouse; however in the 2010s Parkhouse was extended with a sizeable private housing development, street names of which are all prefixed with 'Park' - Parkdale, Parkholm, Parkmanor and Parkmeadow. At the eastern end of the main road (the junction with the major A726 Nitshill Road) is the historic 'category B' Listed Darnley Mill which has been converted into a restaurant. Beyond that lies the

Darnley Darnley is an area in south-west Glasgow, Scotland, on the A727 just west of Arden (the areas are separated by the M77 motorway although a footbridge connects them). Other nearby neighbourhoods are Priesthill to the north, Southpark Village ...

district, comprising a residential area with community facilities, a small park and an

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. Parkhouse is bounded to its south and east by the

Dams to Darnley Country Park Dams to Darnley Country Park is a 1,350 acre country park in the East Renfrewshire and Glasgow areas, in Scotland. The park comprises the historic greenspace between the towns of Barrhead and Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire, and the areas of ...

, with several pedestrian access points to park footpaths within the neighbourhood streets. The park's eastern section, ''Darnley Mill Park'', is formed by a glen through which the Brock Burn flows and was once the location of a lime works which processed stone from nearby quarries (all long since closed). On the other side of the park is Southpark Village, a neighbourhood of similar size and character to Parkhouse, but which adjoins a

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including the first full-service supermarket in Scotland by the

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company (opened 1992) as well as a large B&Q.

Transport

A major reason for the area's development into a car-friendly commuter suburb was the proximity of the

M77 motorway The M77 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. It begins in Glasgow at the M8 motorway at Kinning Park, and terminates near Kilmarnock at Fenwick, becoming the A77 dual carriageway. Changes were made in 2005 segregating a lane on the M8 motorw ...

between Glasgow and

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, Junction 3 of which is only from the junction of Parkhouse Road and Nitshill Road. There are several rail links in close proximity to the area. Barrhead station provides services to East Renfrewshire and Ayrshire. For travel to Glasgow the nearest railway station for most residents is , with on the same

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also fairly close. The frequent '57' bus service operated by

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passes along Nitshill Road, providing access to

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in one direction and the Silverburn Shopping Centre in the other;

McGill's Bus Services McGill's Bus Services is a bus operator based in Greenock, Scotland. The company has grown to operate a network of routes covering much of the council areas of Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Glasgow City (counci ...

operate an hourly service between

Neilston Neilston (, , ) is a village and List of civil parishes in Scotland, parish in East Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the River Levern, Levern Valley, southwest of Barrhead, the last remaining town in greater Glas ...

and

East Kilbride East Kilbride (; ), sometimes referred to as EK, is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. Historically a small village, it was designated Scotland's first "new town" on 6 Ma ...

via Parkhouse Road.

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{{Areas of Glasgow Areas of Glasgow

Location and history

Transport

See also

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