Knightswood Park

A walk through Knightswood Park.

We arrived at Knightswood Park after a picnic lunch on Trinley Brae which is a short walk from Westerton Station. The park is slightly closer to Scotstounhill but arriving from the north and leaving to the south made this walk downhill all the way!

Knightswood Park can be found in west Glasgow. The Knightswood area was purchased by the Glasgow Corporation in 1921 to build housing under garden suburb ideas so included lots of green spaces including the 69 hectares of Knightswood Park itself.

Rudy visited in October which meant the trees were in a high point of their autumn leaf colouring and it certainly made the winding path through the trees very pleasant. Despite the blue skies there had been a lot of rain this week and the ground was very muddy in places so we stuck mostly to the very good paths around the park.

The northern part of Knightswood Park would be a beautiful summer picnic spot we think, the grass looks well cared for and lots of mature trees for interest & shade if needed! The Garscadden Burn resurfaces for a while to run through the park but it seemed more a functional muddy stream here rather than exploited as a feature of the park. We’ll be making at least one more visit to this same burn though as it zig-zags around, under & over the area from Drumchapel to the River Clyde.

The southern part of Knightswood Park is of the familiar Glasgow formal park layout with children’s play area, bowling greens, a sports pitch circled by a running track and a large boating & duck pond. The pond was lacking in water when we visited despite recent rain and we even thought about walking out to the little island until for unusual photo viewpoint but the gulls & birds made it clear that it was their territory!

Outside the main public park, across Archerhill Road to the south is a golf course, bmx/skate track as well as a competition sized BMX course which was used to host the 2018 European Championships. A walk of about a mile down wide Lincoln Avenue took us to Scotstounhill Station and the journey home.