City of Glasgow  Pollok Country Park

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Photographs of Pollok Country Park

 on the South Side of Glasgow

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Map of Pollok Country Park ( Click here or on map for large format version )

Main Entrance to Pollok Country Park  a large estate in the south of Glasgow. In 2007 it was named the best park in Britain. The park was formerly Pollok Estate  - home of the Maxwell family for over 700 years.  In 1966, Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald gifted the estate, including Pollok House, to Glasgow City Council, with the condition that it remained a public park.

Sign at entrance to Pollok Country Park Pollock House | Burrel Gallery | White Cart River

Woods in Pollok Country Park

The Pond  in Pollok Country Park

Woods  in Pollok Country Park

White Cart River in Pollok Country Park

Pollok House in Pollok Country Park

Burrell Gallery in Pollok Country Park

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POLLOK COUNTRY PARK - ROUTE DESCRIPTION:

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Location: Pollokshaws, Glasgow
Map: OS Landranger 64, (GR 548619)
Distance: 3 miles (5km)
fime: 1 hour 30 minutes
Terrain: tracks and paths

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Pollok Country Park on the south side of Glasgow offers a mixture of recreational and cultural activities that is probably unmatched anywhere else in the country.
Within the park is a large estate of open grassland and mature woodland, criss-crossed by tracks, paths and cycle routes, an internationally renowned gallery and
museum housing the Burrell Collection and the William Adam-designed Georgian mansion of Pollok House.
Gifted to Glasgow by the Maxwell family in the mid-1960s, the estate’s footpaths and woodland are maintained by the city
council in conjunction with the National Trust For Scotland which looks after Pollok House.
The park is easily reached by public transport and on foot.
This walk starts from the free car park beyond Pollok House at the western end of the park from where a path leads through
woodland before the White Cart Water to an access road between the house and the river.
The house is easily accessed through the arched courtyard on your left and is well worth visiting.
Otherwise, remain on the access road past the formal gardens which are open to the public, and the stables housing Pollok’s award-winning Clydesdale horses.
A tarmac path and cycle route continues beyond this point and is followed beside fields, and the river to tennis courts and the main access road.
Turn right, then left shortly afterwards on to a tarmac path signposted to the Burrell Collection, the purpose-built glass,
stone and steel gallery housing Sir William Burrell’s diverse collection of art, sculpture and upmarket bric-a-brac.
Cross the grass immediately right of the gallery and ascend towards the gazebo, or if the ground is too wet underfoot, follow a
path in the Woodland skirting the grass on the right to reach a four-way path junction.
Continue straight-ahead from here, before descending leftwards to the pond and the main drive beyond.
A left turn at this point gains the main drive to arrive back at the main entrance to Pollok House and the car park.

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Pollok Country Park Gallery