Giffnock
Sign in to saveGiffnock (; ; , ) is a town and the administrative centre of East Renfrewshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.
Key facts
- UK place.type
- Town and administrative centre
- UK place.static_image_name
- Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. - geograph.org.uk - 429703.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Shops on Fenwick Road
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Giffnock
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Giofnag
- UK place.scots_name
- Giffnock
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS565585
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.pushpin_map
- Scotland East Renfrewshire#Scotland Glasgow
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- East Renfrewshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- East Renfrewshire
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Eastwood
- UK place.post_town
- GLASGOW
- UK place.postcode_district
- G46
- UK place.postcode_area
- G
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 12300
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- East Renfrewshire
- Image
- Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. - geograph.org.uk - 429703.jpg
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- OS grid reference
- NS565585
- Commons category
- Giffnock
- historic county
- Renfrewshire
- P8168
- Zinjibar
- P12749
- Johann Tetzel
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Giffnock (; ; , ) is a town and the administrative centre of East Renfrewshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.
It lies east of Barrhead, east-southeast of Paisley and northwest of East Kilbride, at the southwest of the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giffnock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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