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Brockburn Road, GLASGOW, G53 5TL

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.

In Pollok, just to the west of the Levern Water.

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

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.

This tower is the only part of the castle which still survives to its original height.

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

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.)

The picture was taken within what remains of the Great Hall, now roofless; its fireplace is a prominent feature: Image The doorway to the right of the fireplace leads to a spiral staircase (Image), which in turn leads to the Lord's Bedchamber (Image); from there, modern metal rungs give access to another two storeys above that one (Image and Image – the barred windows of those rooms can be seen in the present picture), and finally to the rooftop; its fence can be seen at the upper left corner of the picture. Those rooms and the rooftop (Image) are parts of the north-eastern tower, the only one of the towers to survive to its full height; compare Image For a view from the fenced-off area at the top-left corner of the present picture, see Image The place from which the present picture was taken can be seen in that view. Click on the end-note title for other pictures of the castle.