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Photo taken from bridge within Garscube grounds.
©Chris Upson
©Chris Upson
©Chris Upson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Signs on Maryhill Road as it crosses the River Kelvin, and into East Dunbartonshire.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.2km<br/>At Killermont, just off Maryhill Road.
©Stephen Sweeney
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©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Old water mill on the River Kelvin at Maryhill Road.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.3km<br/>The drive into the Killermont Golf Club.
©David Robertson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Science park used by businesses and universities in Glasgow.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.3km<br/>This peaceful part of the Science Park feels miles, rather than a few hundred yards, away from the busy roads that lead in and out of Glasgow. An ideal spot to recharge the batteries when at a busy conference.
©Elliott Simpson
Dist:0.4km<br/>In the West of Scotland Science Park.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the main observatory ('Acre Road'), close to the Garscube Estate. In the 1970s, the observatory was virtually on its own, almost in open countryside. Now it is not so easy to locate, being surrounded by flats and office blocks. For more information about Glasgow University Observatories, see http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/observatory/observ.shtml
©G Laird
Dist:0.5km<br/>Like the rest of Maryhill, the area that is now called Acre lies in what was originally the northern part of the old Gairbraid estate. Through his wife (the eponymous Mary Hill), Robert Graham came to acquire these lands; after a failed attempt to make money in the coal industry, he sold off some of his wife's lands, but "the part of Maryhill known as Acre was once the acre of ground which Graham held back from a sale in order to 'big colliers' houses'" [quotation from the book "Villages of Glasgow &#8211; North of the Clyde" by Aileen Smart; see that work for more on all of the above; note that in the quotation, "to big" means "to build/erect"]. For a wider view of this area, see [[1517250]].
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.5km<br/>Meeting of two roads in the residential area of Kessington.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.6km<br/>A series of residential blocks between Maryhill Park and the West of Scotland Science Campus.
©Richard Webb

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