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Queens Park
(Glasgow Gardens), 520 Langside Road, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 649 0331
Open: Mon to Fri - 9am to 9pm, Sat - 9pm to 7pm, Sun - 10am to 7pm
Covering 60 Hectares (148 Acres), the park boasts great amenities with a
range of sporting facilities such as five floodlit 'all weather' tennis courts, pitch and putt, bowling greens and a skateboard park as well a nature pond filled with mallards, little grebe, tufted duck, coots, moorhens and mute swans and large boating pond.
Dedicated to Mary Queen of Scots the park is also steeped in history and therefore located near the main walkway is an oak tree planted by Belgian refugees after the first world war and a beech tree commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the united nations from 1945.
The park also provides a café, display glass houses, an aviary and pet house and poetry rose garden and picnic areas with benches. The park also situated 4 miles from the city centre and therefore is in the route of regular buses and 5 minutes from Queens park railway station.
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