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Glasgow, Castlemilk

Housing Estate (modern)

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Castlemilk is a modern housing estate in Glasgow, built on land where river water once struck castle walls. The name preserves that collision of milk-white tide and stone defense, even though the castle itself has vanished into memory. Rooms still stand where the river disappeared, forcing people to inhabit the shape of what the water left behind.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glasgow, Castlemilk as Housing Estate (modern). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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