IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Acre Drive, GLASGOW, G20 0TR
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Acre Drive, G20 0TR by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (87 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Maryhill Park
Freshly mown grass beside the football pitches.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 26 Sep 2009
0.05 miles
2
Acre Road flats
A series of residential blocks between Maryhill Park and the West of Scotland Science Campus.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 26 Sep 2009
0.05 miles
3
Acre Drive
Three blocks of flats on Acre Drive.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 10 Apr 2022
0.06 miles
4
Caldercuilt Recreation Ground
The running track of Caldercuilt Recreation Ground can be seen beyond the grass and trees of Maryhill Park. The Campsie Fells are in the far distance.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 1 Jan 2022
0.06 miles
5
Garscube Allotments
Looking over some of the plots at Garscube Allotments towards the buildings on Acre Drive
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 18 Apr 2015
0.09 miles
6
Maryhill Park
Freshly mown grass and a view towards the Kilsyth Hills.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 26 Sep 2009
0.09 miles
8
Glasgow University Observatory
This is the main observatory ('Acre Road'), close to the Garscube Estate.
In the 1970s, the observatory was virtually on its own, almost in open countryside. Now it is not so easy to locate, being surrounded by flats and office blocks.
For more information about Glasgow University Observatories, see http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/observatory/observ.shtml
Image: © G Laird
Taken: 25 Sep 2010
0.10 miles
9
Maryhill Park triangulation pillar
A small hilltop in the very pleasant Maryhill Park.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 26 Sep 2009
0.10 miles
10
Path through Acre
Like the rest of Maryhill, the area that is now called Acre lies in what was originally the northern part of the old Gairbraid estate. Through his wife (the eponymous Mary Hill), Robert Graham came to acquire these lands; after a failed attempt to make money in the coal industry, he sold off some of his wife's lands, but "the part of Maryhill known as Acre was once the acre of ground which Graham held back from a sale in order to 'big colliers' houses'" [quotation from the book "Villages of Glasgow – North of the Clyde" by Aileen Smart; see that work for more on all of the above; note that in the quotation, "to big" means "to build/erect"].
For a wider view of this area, see Image
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 3 Jun 2005
0.10 miles