Greenfield, Glasgow
Greenfield is a neighbourhood in the east end of the Scottish city of Glasgow, north of the River Clyde. The estate was built on the grounds of Greenfield House[1] which was demolished to make way for the new scheme which was built in the 1960s.[2]
| Greenfield | |
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  Greenfield Location within Glasgow | |
| Area | 1.5 km2 (0.58 sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | NS644646 |
| Council area | |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GLASGOW |
| Postcode district | G32 |
| Dialling code | 0141 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
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The area is also home to a recently upgraded football centre, used for amateur games, and a public park.[3]
Greenfield lies south of Cranhill, north of Shettleston, east of Carntyne and west of Springboig and Budhill. Housing in the area is in the form of terraced housing, tenements and maisonettes. There are also some prefab houses surviving from the 1940s.[4]
Greenfield was one of the areas affected by the 2002 Glasgow floods.[5] It has three schools.
References
- Greenfield House (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, Dougan Collection, 1870), The Glasgow Story
- Case Studies: South Greenfield, Glasgow, Retrofit Scotland
- Greenfield Football Centre, Glasgow Life
- BISF House, Greenfield (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Architectural and Civic Design, 1949), The Glasgow Story
- Remembering Glasgow’s floods of 2002, The Scotsman, 11 January 2016
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