| Comment | Just another thing seeing as you mentioned the railway building. Over and over you will find lots of railway buildings named for an area they are not actually within (as well as supermarkets and stuff). The three reasons I can think of for this are a) historical changes to the lay of the land, b) they name the building or station after the next nearest most known area (like if hardly anybody knew the name Lambhill compared to Possilpark at the time of building (a sort of ancient SEO)), and c) as you mention, there is no official boundary according to any single source (Royal Mail use their own postcode map (see the other comment where Royal Mail consider Cowlairs as being Sighthill), while some areas will be based off old parish boundary maps of the churches, while some will be asserted by taxi drivers like me (such as my vehemancy over large parts of Maryhill not being Maryhill (North Woodside, I'm looking at you) or bits of Springburn not actually being Springburn but are actually near forgotten names (a la Eastfield and Petershill), while some are geographic like waterways forming a border, while some are just down to where the locals decide the line lies... the best we can do is look at as many sources as possible and have these conversations and even then we might never get a definite answer. |
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