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Glasgow city overview
Glasgow is a city in Scotland shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Airport baseGlasgow Airport (GLA)
Known forGlasgow, Key city of Scotland, Glasgow planning base 3, Glasgow planning base 4
Population~636kcity context
RegionScotlandScotland
Time zoneEurope/Londonlocal time
Founded500historical origin
City history
Its port increased to 12 miles of quays and docks and 500 miles of railway.
The settlement may have an earlier Brittonic name, Cathures; the modern name appears for the first time in the Gaelic period (1116), as Glasgu.
The founding of the University of Glasgow adjoining the cathedral in 1451 and elevation of the bishopric to become the Archdiocese of Glasgow in 1492 increased the town's religious and educational status and landed.
A new bell was purchased by the magistrates in 1641 and that bell is still on display in the People's Palace Museum, near Glasgow Green.
Trade greatly expanded and, starting in 1668, the city's magistrates created a new town and deep water port at Port Glasgow about 20 mi (32 km) down the River Clyde, as the river from.
The opening of the Monkland Canal and basin linking to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas in 1795, also facilitated access to the extensive iron-ore and coal mines in Lanarkshire.
The original 1866 grant placed the crest atop a helm, but this was removed in subsequent grants.
The Caledonian Railway rebuilt many of the sewers, as part of a deal to allow them to tunnel under the city, and sewage treatment works were opened at Dalmarnoch in 1894, Dalmuir in 1904.
Following the 2002 Glasgow floods, the waterborne parasite cryptosporidium was found in the reservoir at Milngavie, and so the new Milngavie water treatment works was built.
It was opened by Queen Elizabeth in 2007, and won the 2007 Utility Industry Achievement Award, having been completed ahead of its time schedule and for £10 million below its budgeted cost.
The report led to a huge and radical programme of rebuilding and regeneration efforts that started in the mid-1950s and lasted into the late 1970s.
Items from the wall, such as altars from Roman forts of Balmuildy, are now located at the Hunterian Museum.
He established a church on the Molendinar Burn, where the present Glasgow Cathedral stands, and in the following years Glasgow became a religious centre.
By the fifteenth century the urban area stretched from the area around the cathedral and university in the north down to the bridge and the banks of the Clyde in the south along High.
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Glasgow Airport (GLA) arrival plan
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Transport notes
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Crowds
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