Hill House / Pollok House is a historic site in Glasgow City, Scotland.
What follows is drawn from published sources, with each claim labelled by how firmly it is established.
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- Location
- 55.8247°N · 4.3524°W
Nearby places
Fortified place · Medieval
Crookston Castle
Glasgow City
The only medieval castle still standing within Glasgow's boundaries, and the very first property the National Trust for Scotland ever acquired.
- Near Gloucester
Sacred place · Medieval
Paisley Abbey
Renfrewshire
Robert II was born here by caesarean section in 1316, after his mother fell from her horse nearby. A stone marker stands where she came off.
Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
By the mid-nineteenth century a Scotsman's snuff box was expected to contain a fragment of this oak. The relic trade is what killed it.
- Near Renfrewshire
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow City
One of only two medieval Scottish cathedrals: alongside St Magnus in Orkney: to survive the Reformation (the sixteenth-century suppression of monas…
- Near Gloucester
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