NKCC health walk 26 April

02:00 pm

Walk destination on Saturday 26 April 2025: Garnethill.

Meeting point

Meet on Queen Margaret Bridge at the junction with Queen Margaret Road at 2pm, opposite our noticeboard.

About Garnethill

Garnethill is one of the few residential areas within the city centre and has a multicultural population. It is a relatively small area comprising three parallel streets running east/west along the spine of the hill, crossed by a number of streets running between Sauchiehall St and West Graham St.

It has a number of interesting buildings, and one ruin – the shell of the Mackintosh Building of Glasgow School of Art. The notable buildings are: The Tenement House, The Glasgow Jewish Heritage Centre (in the former Synagogue), Garnetbank Primary School, other Glasgow School of Art buildings, St Aloysius College, St Aloysius Church, St Andrew's RC Church (which still celebrates mass in Latin), Garnethill Community Park, Garnethill Multicultural Community Centre and Margaret Macdonald House, the former Glasgow Girl's high school building, now student residences. Margaret Macdonald was the wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and a significant artist in her own right.

Route detail

The route will be: QM Road, Doune Quadrant, Doune Gardens, Striven Gardens, Garriochmill Path, North Woodside Road, Napiershall St, Burnbank Gardens, Burnbank Terrace, Great Western Road, St George's Road and the footpath above the M8 leading to West Graham St, then right into Cambridge St where we start to explore Garnethill.

We will go up Buccleuch St (uphill) where we reach a rampart above the M8 with fine views to the west and north. Then we go down Hill St and up Renfrew St and down to Charing Cross.

We cross the footbridge to Woodside Terrace, Lynedoch Terrace, Lynedoch St, Lynedoch Place, Cliff Road Park Avenue to the junction of Woodlands Road and Eldon St at the former Woodside Secondary School.

We cross and go along Woodlands Road past the Stand Comedy Club and into South Woodside Road, following its full length to Tillie St, Jardine St, Garriochmill Road and rejoin Striven Gardens and back to QM Bridge.

Registration

There is no need to book – you can just come along on the day.

However, if you haven’t done so already, it would be helpful if you could record your participation by entering your data on this registration link. (This needs to be done only once.)