Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Cathcart, Scottish Gaelic: Coille Chart, an area of Glasgow between Battlefield, Mount Florida, King's Park, Muirend and Newlands. Originally part of the Burgh of Govan in Renfrewshire, most of the ancient parish was annexed by the City of Glasgow in 1912. Cathcart is served by Cathcart railway station on the Cathcart Circle Line. The old parish church was from an original design in 1923 by Clifford and Lunan, but completed 1928 by Watson, Salmon and Gray. Linn Park is a large park surrounded by the suburbs of Cathcart, Simshill and Netherlee on the southern fringes of Glasgow, where the city borders East Renfrewshire. It is Glasgow’s second largest park, after Pollok Country Park. Both parks have the White Cart Water flowing through them. Linn House was built in 1811 for Reverend James Hall, who a short time later became bankrupt resulting in the house and estate being put up for auction on behalf of the creditors. James Hall's wife, Mary Maxwell, separately owned adjacent land at Bogton which was the subject of a legal action by the creditors against her, which was determined at the Court of Session in January 1814. The mansion and surrounding estate was sold again in 1820..
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