What is recorded here
Marsh land and Crookston Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Glasgow City, Scotland. Perhaps water and stone collided there, building a shape that still resists forgetting. Maybe the marsh gave up ground only to take back breath from everyone who walked it. Imagine a tower rising through wet darkness, not to defend people but to test whether they could be defended at all.
A named place photographed at this map point in Glasgow City.
Crookston Castle, near Glasgow, was built by the Maxwell family in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is remembered as an important stronghold in the defense of the Scottish border and for its role in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Places near here
Defensive ditch, from top of Crookston CastleCastle, fort or tower · 49 yd
Crookston CastleCoal Mining Site (medieval) - (post Medieval) · 50 yd
Crookston Castle from the eastCastle, fort or tower · 55 yd
Crookston CottageLodge (20th Century) · 117 yd
CrookstonFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 449 yd
Crookston WoodWood · 610 yd
Glasgow,Crookston Road, 510, Leverndale Hospital Water Tower and Hall (Former)Water Tower (19th Century) · 973 yd
Bull WoodWood · 1460 yd
Corker HillMountain or hill · 1541 yd
Hurlet HillMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
Temple HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Craigton CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1.3 miOther information
Photo: Stephen Sweeney · CC BY-SA 2.0