Crosshill

This article is about the district of Glasgow. For places with the same or similar names, see Cross Hill (disambiguation).

Coordinates: 55°49′59″N 4°15′39″W / 55.833121°N 4.260794°W / 55.833121; -4.260794

Crosshill
Crosshill  Crosshill shown within Glasgow
OS grid reference	NS585623
Council area	Glasgow City Council
Lieutenancy area	Glasgow
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLASGOW
Postcode district	G42
Dialling code	0141
Police	Strathclyde
Fire	Strathclyde
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Glasgow South
Scottish Parliament	Glasgow Cathcart
	Glasgow Shettleston
	Glasgow
List of places: UK • Scotland • Glasgow

Crosshill is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde. In earlier maps the area is called Corsehill, which means Gorse hill, so the name is probably a corruption of this earlier name, and does not refer to a cross. There is a great deal of gorse growing on the slopes of nearby Langside College in Battlefield.

However, according to Hugh Macintosh's "The Origin and History of Glasgow Streets,^[1] printed 1902, "CROSSHILL derives its name from an ancient cross which stood on a height still named the Cross Hill. This monument was about ten feet high and three-and-a-half wide, and bore a sculptured representation of Christ entering Jerusalem riding on an ass. It was removed by some vandals about the end of the eighteenth century." This would suggest that if a corruption of the name "Corse Hill" to "Cross Hill" occurred, it may indeed have resulted from the presence of a cross on the hill.

Formerly part of the County of Renfrew, Crosshill enjoyed a brief existence as an independent police burgh from 1871 until it was absorbed by Glasgow in 1891.

The area is served by Crosshill railway station.

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  The site of Crosshill Station

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  Crosshill is the station between Queen's Park and Mount Florida on the Cathcart Circle Line out of Glasgow Central

1. ^ http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/minstr/index.html

http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/minstr/minstr02.htm