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Pollokshields, police burgh and quoad sacra par. with ry. sta., Govan par., Renfrewshire, in SW. suburbs of Glasgow - quoad sacra par., pop. 6523; police burgh, pop. 2104. Pollokshields was made a police burgh in 1876, and is almost entirely occupied by detached villa residences.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "police burgh" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Govan Parish Renfrewshire County |
| Place: | Pollokshields |
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