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Brockburn Road, GLASGOW, G53 5RY

See the main item, Image, which discusses this defensive ringwork. The two closest houses visible in this photo stand on the near side of Brockburn Road, while the remainder of the houses are on its other side.

Marshy area at the foot of the hill at Crookston Castle.

The ditch is part of a defensive ringwork built for the earlier castle, as discussed in the main item, Image The nearby houses that appear in this image stand alongside Brockburn Road; they can also be seen, in part, near the lower left corner of this image: Image

Visible in the upper half of this image is a small section of the defensive ringwork that surrounds Crookston Castle, as discussed in the main item, Image

From the Great Hall (Image), the spiral staircase gives access to the Lord's Bedchamber (Image). Beside the same staircase are the remains of a medieval latrine, and a blocked door to the (now largely demolished) south-eastern tower (see Image, where the remains of that tower are on the left). Further up, the staircase is blocked, but it would have given access to the uppermost rooms in the north-eastern tower (i.e., the two storeys of rooms directly above the Lord's Bedchamber). Those rooms are now reached, instead, by sets of modern metal rungs.

Crookston Castle, in the Pollok area of Glasgow, is an early 15th century construction. It is surrounded by a defensive ring ditch that dates back to the 12th century when Sir Robert Croc built an earlier castle and chapel. Crookston Castle sits on top of a natural hill and has four square corner towers. Only the north-east corner tower survives to its former height. Today, Crookston Castle is a Category A listed building. This view of the castle is from the south.

The castle faces onto Brockburn Road.

This room, in the north-eastern tower of Crookston Castle, is immediately above the one shown in Image, and the view direction is the same: the steps in that picture lead to the opening at the lower left corner of the present picture. The north-eastern tower is the only one that survives to its full height, and there is one more storey above this one. The castle would originally have been more symmetrical (see Image), but other towers have been destroyed. The barred window on the right is the lower of the two that can be seen, one above the other, high up on the left-hand side in a picture of Image When there were floors in the central part of the castle, this "window" would have been a doorway. For the next room up, see Image

This room in the north-eastern tower is reached by means of a spiral staircase (Image) from the doorway that is visible to the right of the fireplace in a view of Image There are another two storeys above this one; those rooms are superficially similar to this one, and they are reached by climbing sets of metal rungs, as the picture shows. For the next floor up, see Image From the topmost room (which is two storeys above the one in the present picture), more rungs lead to the rooftop. (On my last visit, I was allowed to ascend the castle after I had made it clear that I had no objection to climbing ladders in cramped spaces in near darkness; more light gets into the building now.)