Glasgow, Lanarkshire : Place names

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Glasgow. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
GLASCO	William Camden	Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
GLASCOW	William Camden	Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
GLASGOW	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
GLASGOW	F.H. Groome	Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY	F.H. Groome	Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Glasgow. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00QS	District/Unitary Authority (City)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
ANNIESLAND	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
BLACKFRIARS	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
CENTRAL CLYDESIDE	Conurbation	1961 Census of Scotland, Table 23, 'Private Households by availability of certain Household Arrangements', for 'County, LB, SB, Districts of County, NT'.
CENTRAL GLASGOW	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
CITY OF GLASGOW	District/Unitary Authority (City)	Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland (Information Paper: Local government area boundaries in Scotland: 1995 onwards)
	Nuts Unit Level 3	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (NUTS, level 3 (January 2018) Boundaries UK)
	Scottish County (ScoCofC)	The Scottish Archive Network, Scottish Archives Network Gazetteer
COLLEGE	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
CRAIGTON	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW	Constituency (PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Constituency (DistBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	District/Unitary Authority (City)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Nuts Unit Level 3	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (NUTS, level 3 (January 2018) Boundaries UK)
	Scottish Burgh/District (Burgh)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
	Scottish County (ScoCofC)	The Scottish Archive Network, Scottish Archives Network Gazetteer
	Scottish Parish	1951 Census of Scotland, Table 1, 'Comparison of population, density per 100 acres, and houses with 1931', for 'Burghs, Districts of Counties and CPs'.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
GLASGOW AND DISTRICT	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
GLASGOW ANNIESLAND	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW BLACKFRIARS AND HUTCHESONTOWN	Constituency (PBDivCon)	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974)
GLASGOW BLACKFRIARS AND HUTCHESTOWN	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW CENTRAL	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW CENTRAL	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW CITY	District/Unitary Authority (City)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Nuts Unit Level 3	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (NUTS, level 3 (January 2018) Boundaries UK)
	Scottish County (ScoCofC)	1951 Census of Scotland, Table 1, 'Comparison of population, density per 100 acres, and houses with 1931', for 'Burghs, Districts of Counties and CPs'.
GLASGOW/CITY	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
GLASGOW COLLEGE	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW CRAIGTON	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW EAST	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW EAST	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
GLASGOW INC BARRHEAD CLYDEBANK KIRKINTILLOCH AND RUTHERGLEN	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
GLASGOW INCLUDING RUTHERGLEN	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
GLASGOW KELVIN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW KELVINGROVE	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW NO 3 ST ROLLOX	Constituency (PBDivCon)	1891 Census of Scotland, Table 5, 'The Parliamentary, Royal, and Police Burghs, also the Parliamentary Districts of Burghs and of Counties, and Wards of Burghs showing the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English, and the number of Rooms with Windows'.
GLASGOW NO 4 CENTRAL	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	1891 Census of Scotland, Table 5, 'The Parliamentary, Royal, and Police Burghs, also the Parliamentary Districts of Burghs and of Counties, and Wards of Burghs showing the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English, and the number of Rooms with Windows'.
GLASGOW NO 5 COLLEGE	Constituency (PBDivCon)	1891 Census of Scotland, Table 5, 'The Parliamentary, Royal, and Police Burghs, also the Parliamentary Districts of Burghs and of Counties, and Wards of Burghs showing the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English, and the number of Rooms with Windows'.
GLASGOW NO 6 TRADESTON	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	1891 Census of Scotland, Table 5, 'The Parliamentary, Royal, and Police Burghs, also the Parliamentary Districts of Burghs and of Counties, and Wards of Burghs showing the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English, and the number of Rooms with Windows'.
GLASGOW NO 7 BLACKFRIARS AND HUTCHESONTOWN	Constituency (PBDivCon)	1891 Census of Scotland, Table 5, 'The Parliamentary, Royal, and Police Burghs, also the Parliamentary Districts of Burghs and of Counties, and Wards of Burghs showing the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English, and the number of Rooms with Windows'.
GLASGOW NORTH	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW NORTH	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
GLASGOW NORTH EAST	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW NORTH WEST	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW POLLOK	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW PROVAN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW QUEENS PARK	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW RUTHERGLEN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW SCOTSTOUN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW SOUTH	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW SOUTH WEST	Constituency (BCon)	Boundary Commission for Scotland Information Paper. Westminster Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
GLASGOW SPRINGBURN	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW ST ROLLOX	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW TRADESTON	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
GLASGOW WEST	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
GLASGOW WOODSIDE	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
HUTCHESTOWN	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
KELVIN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
KELVINGROVE	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
POLLOK	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
PROVAN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
QUEENS PARK	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
S14000029	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000030	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000031	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000032	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000033	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000034	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000035	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000084	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000085	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000086	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000087	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000088	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S14000089	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
S631488	Scottish County (ScoCofC)
SCOTSTOUN	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
SPRINGBURN	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
ST ROLLOX	Constituency (PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
TRADESTON	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
UKM82	Nuts Unit Level 3	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (NUTS, level 3 (January 2018) Boundaries UK)
WOODSIDE	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Glasgow, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Glasgow, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.