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The Doulton Fountain in front of the red sandstone People's Palace and its glass Winter Gardens.
Glasgow

Glasgow Green

The oldest of Glasgow's parks, given to the people in 1450, on the Clyde with Nelson's column, the McLennan Arch and the Doulton Fountain.

Welcome

Glasgow Green runs along the north bank of the Clyde east of the Saltmarket, 55 hectares of open grass and paths and by far the oldest of the city's parks.

In 1450 Bishop Turnbull gave the common lands here to the people of Glasgow, and for centuries they used them for washing and bleaching linen, grazing cattle, drying fishing nets and swimming. Glasgow's first washhouse went up on the banks of the Camlachie Burn in 1732.

It has long been where the city gathers. Bonnie Prince Charlie reviewed his army here in 1746, crowds came in their hundreds of thousands to hear about reform in the 1800s, and the suffragettes made it a meeting place. Walk in under the McLennan Arch, a piece of an Adam brothers' building rebuilt as a triumphal arch, past Nelson's column of 1806, the first monument to him in Britain, to the terracotta Doulton Fountain in front of the People's Palace.

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Before you go

The park is open at all times, and its main paths are lit.

There is a play village and a play area for children, viewing platforms on the Clyde, and public toilets. The People's Palace and Winter Gardens are closed at present.

Open
At all times.
Where
The north bank of the Clyde, east of the Saltmarket.
For children
A play village and a local play area.

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Where it is

The north bank of the Clyde in the east end, a short walk from the Saltmarket and the city centre.

Close byOn the Green, or a short walk from it.
  1. The People's PalaceThe People's PalaceThe story of Glasgow and its people, on the Green.Under a mile 1 min by road
  2. WEST brewery bar and restaurant on Glasgow Green.WEST on the GreenGerman-style lagers brewed in the Templeton Building by the Green.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. The BarrasThe BarrasThe street and indoor market of the east end, running since the early 1900s.Under a mile 2 min by road
  4. A long straight Merchant City street of sandstone buildings under a pale pink sky.Merchant CityThe old quarter of warehouses and traders, now restaurants and bars.1 mile 4 min by road
  5. Clyde WalkwayClyde WalkwayThe riverside path from Glasgow to New Lanark, along the Green's edge.2 miles 5 min by road
  6. Two curved steel sculptures forming a gateway over a path at Cuningar Loop, frost on the ground under a grey sky.Cuningar LoopWoodland in a bend of the Clyde upstream, with Scotland's first outdoor bouldering park.2 miles 5 min by road
Directions
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Places to stay near the Green, and when each is next free.

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  • Sleeps 2
  • In Glasgow
  • 2 miles from Glasgow Green
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  • Sleeps 4
  • In Dunlop
  • 12 miles from Glasgow Green
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