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Hillpark, Glasgow

Hillpark is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

Hillpark, Glasgow
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The place

Hillpark is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated south of the River Clyde.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hillpark, Glasgow

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hampden Park

    Hampden Park, currently known as Barclays Hampden for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the national stadium of football in Scotland and home of the Scotland national football team.

    3.1 km · association football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Burrell Collection

    The Burrell Collection is a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It houses the art collection of Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell.

    2 km · art museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pollok House

    Pollok House, formerly the family seat of the Stirling-Maxwell family, is located at Pollok Country Park in Glasgow, Scotland.

    2 km · category A listed building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cathkin Park

    Cathkin Park is a municipal park in Glasgow, Scotland. The park is maintained by the city's parks department, and it is a public place where football is still played.

    3.2 km · municipal park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Queen's Park, Glasgow

    Queen's Park is a park situated on the south side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between Strathbungo, Shawlands, Battlefield, Mount Florida, and Crosshill.

    2.5 km · park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bellahouston Park

    Bellahouston Park is a public park in the Bellahouston district on the South Side of Glasgow, Scotland, between the areas of Craigton, Dumbreck, Ibrox and Mosspark covering an area of 71 hectares. The main part of Bellahouston Park was acquired by Glasgow Corporation in 1895 for the sum of £50,000, and opened to the public in 1896.

    3.5 km · public park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Pollok Country Park

    Pollok Country Park is a 146-hectare country park located between Shawlands, Crossmyloof, and Pollok in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2007, Pollok Country Park was named Britain's Best Park, and in 2008 it was named the Best Park in Europe, beating competition from parks in Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Sweden.

    2 km · park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway

    The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway is one of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and west Stirlingshire.

    2 km · one of seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Scottish Football Museum

    The Scottish Football Museum is Scotland’s national museum of association football, located in Hampden Park in Glasgow. The museum was established in 1994 being first located in a small section of Glasgow’s Museum of Transport.

    3.1 km · museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cathcart Castle

    Cathcart Castle was a 15th-century castle, located in what is now Linn Park in the Cathcart area of southern Glasgow, Scotland. The castle was abandoned in the 18th century, and the remaining ruins were pulled down in 1980, leaving only foundations visible.

    2.5 km · castle in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Hillpark, Glasgow

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 11 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 39 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 60 km
Stations
Crossmyloof railway station, 2.3 km · Pollokshaws West railway station, 1.1 km · Priesthill & Darnley railway station, 2.9 km · Maxwell Park railway station, 2.6 km · Pollokshields West railway station, 2.9 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Hillpark, Glasgow
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
  • Belfast → Hillpark, Glasgow
    170 km · quickest by road, 14h 8m · £70–95
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Hillpark, Glasgow
    194 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · £22–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hillpark, Glasgow

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hillpark, Glasgow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
  • Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
  • Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
  • Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
  • Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.

From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    59 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    69 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    97 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    167 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    180 km

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Around it

Next door to Hillpark, Glasgow

Hillpark, Glasgow is 6 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Giffnocktown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK1.8 km
  • Clarkstontown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Kinning Parkdistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Langsidedistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK1.6 km
  • Pollokshawsdistrict in Glasgow, Scotland, UK1.2 km
  • Ardendistrict of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom2.3 km