Maryhill, Glasgow City

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Maryhill is a suburban area in Glasgow City

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Maryhill within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Maryhill in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Maryhill, police burgh with ry. sta., Barony par., and par., embraced within Barony and Glasgow City pars., Lanarkshire - par., pop. 39,980; burgh, 3½ miles NW. of the centre of Glasgow, pop. 12,884; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Maryhill has railway and tramway communication with Glasgow, of which it is a suburban burgh, and which it almost conjoins. Among its industries are ironworks, glassworks, paperworks, &c., and in the vicinity are coal mines. At Maryhill are the Dawsholm gasworks (for the supply of Glasgow) and the Maryhill Barracks (at Garrioch); the latter were finished in 1876, and have accommodation for a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and a battery of field artillery.

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