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Possil Park, Glasgow — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Possil Park grew around the Saracen Foundry on Saracen Street, a district north of the River Clyde also recorded as Pàirc Phosail.
About Possil Park
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Two churches share Saracen Street. Possil Park was laid out around the Saracen Foundry that stood on that street, and St Teresa's Church at one address and Possilpark Parish Church at another are what the register keeps of it. Beds are not part of it.
A visitor works from central Glasgow instead, which keeps the ride out to Possil short while leaving the hotel question to the city rather than to a district of housing north of the Clyde.
About Possil Park
What are the main landmarks in Possil Park?
The foundry is gone. Saracen Foundry, run by Walter MacFarlane and the main employer of the district, closed in 1967 and left Possil Park without the works its streets had been laid out to serve. Two churches remain listed.
St Teresa's Church stands at one end of Saracen Street and Possilpark Parish Church further along it, which makes the street itself the whole of what the register records here.
What is the history of Possil Park?
Walter MacFarlane's works made the place. Saracen Foundry stood as the main employer of a district laid out north of the River Clyde, and Possil Park took its shape from the shifts that walked to it along Saracen Street. Closure came in 1967.
The years after it were hard ones for this part of Glasgow, which fell among the poorest in the United Kingdom, and the two churches on Saracen Street outlasted the works the district had grown around.
Where is Possil Park?
Possil Park lies north of the River Clyde in Glasgow, its streets gathered around Saracen Street on the ground the Saracen Foundry once held.
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Updated September 2026