Parkhouse is a residential neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland. Within the G53 postcode area and the Greater Pollok ward of the Glasgow City Council administration, the eastern cluster of private housing was constructed in the 1980s and the western part in the 2010s, prior to which it was open farmland annexed to Glasgow in 1938. It is one of two places in Glasgow called Parkhouse, the other being an older housing development near Milton in the far north of the city. However, they are rarely confused as neither is particularly well known outside local circles, and wider discussions of issues affecting the neighbourhoods take place under the names of their wider wards or constituencies.
Location and history
Parkhouse forms part of the edge of the Glasgow urban area, occupying an area of land to the south of Parkhouse Road, a main route running east–west between southern Glasgow and the town of Barrhead in East Renfrewshire which lies about to the west. Named after the long-established Parkhouse Farm, which still stands beside the western end of its Glasgow portion, the thoroughfare becomes Darnley Road once in East Renfrewshire. The older South Nitshill neighbourhood is on the northern side of Parkhouse Road; this was almost entirely redeveloped in the early 21st century with the result that its buildings are newer than many of those in the more recently established Parkhouse. During World War II, an Anti-aircraft battery was set up on open land which roughly corresponds to Langford Drive; no traces of this facility survive. At the eastern end of the main road is the historic 'category B' Listed Darnley Mill which has been converted into a restaurant. Beyond that lies the Darnley district, comprising a residential area with community facilities, a small park and an industrial estate. Parkhouse is bounded to its south and east by the Dams to Darnley Country Park, with several pedestrian access points to park footpaths within the neighbourhood streets. The park's eastern section, Darnley Mill Park, is formed by a glen through which the Brock Burn flows and was once the location of a lime works which processed stone from nearby quarries. On the other side of the park is Southpark Village, a neighbourhood of similar size and character to Parkhouse, but which adjoins a retail park including the first full-service supermarket in Scotland by the Sainsbury's company as well as a large B&Q.
