Tollcross Park

History

Tollcross Park lands are first recorded in1290 when a local baron, Roger Corbett is recorded as living in the area. In 1580 a ‘Gabriel Corbart‘ was granted land in Towcorse which was originally an area of countryside separating the village of Tollcross from Shettleston. James Dunlop commissioned by the Architect, David Bryce in 1843 to design a new mansion house in the Jacobean style for the estate designed in the new Scottish baronial house with crow stepped gables, corbelled turrets and pointed roofs was set on the summit of the estate and approached by a drive off Tollcross Road.

In 1897, 83 acres of land and the Mansion House were purchased for £29,000 and in 1900 a further acre of land was purchased to save a group of trees on the Western boundary. In 1905, a Children’s Museum was opened in the Mansion House as a branch of the Kelvingrove Museum. At the beginning of the century the glasshouses were presented to the Corporation and are now known as the Winter Gardens. The Bandstand was erected in 1906 and was originally located just to the West of the Winter Gardens, several years later it was relocated to Shettleston Hill.

Facilities

There is a children's farm, a visitors centre with environmental awareness displays, and several gardens including the rose garden, secret sensory garden and the winter gardens, children's play area, orienteering course and a wildlife corridor in the Tollcross Burn glen.

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