Whiteinch
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Whiteinch (Gd: Innis Bhàn) is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde between the Partick and Scotstoun areas of the city. Whiteinch was at one stage part of the burgh of Partick, until that burgh's absorption into the expanding city of Glasgow in 1912.
Whiteinch was originally an island in the Clyde, called Whytinch.[1] However, this was during the time when the Clyde flowed naturally as a shallow and wide river. When it was dredged and narrowed as a man-made enterprise to allow for shipbuilding, the island disappeared, but the name lived on in the area that now sat on the north bank of the river. [2]
Partick Thistle F.C. played in the Whiteinch district for a short while. They played at Jordanvale Park in the area from 1881-1883, when they moved to Muir Park in the centre of Partick. They then returned to the Whiteinch area in 1885 when they moved into the Inchview home of their by now defunct rivals Partick F.C., which is near the location of the Clyde Tunnel's north entrance.[3]
Whiteinch is notably home to Fossil Grove, a site within Victoria Park discovered in 1887 and containing the fossilized stumps of 11 extinct Lepidodendron ("Giant club moss") trees.[4][5] It has been a popular tourist attraction since early times. [6]
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