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Springbank Court, GLASGOW, G31 4PY

Despite the graffiti and gang nonsense on the wall this section of the walkway (also National Cycle Route 75) feels very rural. Kingfishers along the river on one side, and behind the sturdy fence an area of woodland and unused land.

The picture was taken from beside the footpath and cycle route, which is also part of the Clyde Walkway. Here, a long straight section of the river flows north-west, towards the photographer's position, as shown on the map. At the time of writing, the map does not depict, at any scale, the power lines that cross the river here, although they, and the associated pylons, can be seen in satellite imagery. The area on the right is part of a tongue of land enclosed within a loop of the river; it is known as the Cuningar Loop (after Cuningar, the name that large-scale OS mapping applies to the nearest part of the tongue of land; that land is set to become the site of a new woodland park).

One of two tower blocks of flats, which neighbour the football stadium at Parkhead - home to Glasgow Celtic football club - on the A74.

Feeling very rural with weed choked fields over the river and woodland on the Parkhead side. Himalayan Balsam, Impatiens glandulifera, growing along most of the river banks here.

The picture looks along the Clyde Walkway heading west close to the former Commonwealth Games athletes' village.

One of the more scenic sections of the Clyde Walkway in this urban vicinity.

Looking south east.

At a bend in the river the picture looks west from a point on the Clyde Walkway. The houses across the water were built for the athletes' village in the 2014 Commonwealth Games.