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w Pollok Golf o g Club s a Pollokshaws l G Bowling Club oted Best Park in Britain 2007 footbridge over the river to a track and Europe’s Best Park the which offers views across to the house glasshouses to an upper path and the right to the front of Pollok House. following year, Pollok offers a and stables as it gains height, before V follow it right. Go left at the next junc - Walk down left past the house and exit mixture of recreational and cultural passing through woodland to emerge at tion then right and uphill to a stone urn from the archway to the road and car activities unmatched anywhere else in a practice area for Pollok Golf Club. at a path junction. Turn left here and park beyond. . The purpose-built glass, Continue down past Pollokshaws follow the path to the massive Pollok stone and steel gallery housing Sir Bowling Club and under the rail bridge Access & Parking free Beech. Continue past the tree and William Burrell’s diverse collection of to Pollokshaws Road. down to the formal garden to exit on Parking charge at art, sculpture, stained glass, amour and Turn left past Pollokshaws West up-market bric-a-brac is matched by railway station and back over the White Pollok House, with its extensive Cart to the entrance to Pollok Park. gardens, Clydesdale horses and works Follow the pavement through the by El Greco, Goya and Blake. gateway then veer left past the Surrounding them is Pollok Estate, a tennis court car park to the tarmac mixture of farmland, playing fields, cycle path alongside the river. This open grassland and mature woodland, wooded riverside path leads round to crisscrossed by a mixture of tracks, the back of Pollok House gardens paths and cycle routes. which can be entered through the wall The following short route circles the before the stables. However, before White Cart Water, finishing with an entering, continue round to the exploration of the gardens. From the car stables, home to Pollok’s Clydesdale park beyond Pollok House, follow the heavy horses. path through woodland beside the Return to the garden and explore at White Cart Water to the park road in will to arrive at the upper glasshouses. front of the Pollok House. Cross the Ascend stone steps right of the 86 White Cart Water