Maryhill, police burgh with ry. sta., Barony par., and par., embraced within Barony and Glasgow City pars., Lanarkshire - par., pop. 39,980; burgh, 3½ miles NW. of the centre of Glasgow, pop. 12,884; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Maryhill has railway and tramway communication with Glasgow, of which it is a suburban burgh, and which it almost conjoins. Among its industries are ironworks, glassworks, paperworks, &c., and in the vicinity are coal mines. At Maryhill are the Dawsholm gasworks (for the supply of Glasgow) and the Maryhill Barracks (at Garrioch); the latter were finished in 1876, and have accommodation for a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and a battery of field artillery.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))