Cathcart

The name Cathcart derives from the River Cart. The first part of the name varies in different early sources. The earliest attestation appears in 1158, as Kerkert; here the first element is the Common Brittonic or Pictish word surviving today in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|caer}} ("fortification"). Thereafter, however, most or all attestations begin with the word that survives in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|coed}} ("woodland"). These include Katkert (c. 1170), Catkert (between 1177 and 1185), and an attestation in the epithet of one Gilbert of Kathkerd from between 1203 and 1210. Thus, in its different forms, the name once meant "fortress on the River Cart" and "woodland on the River Cart".Simon Taylor, 'Pictish Place-Names Revisited', in Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark A. Hall, The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 A.D. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 50 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 67–118 (p. 87); {{ISBN|978-90-04-18759-7}}.

The ancient parish was formed around Cathcart Castle, the hereditary seat of the Cathcart family. The castle was built in the 15th-century on a site overlooking the White Cart Water, now part of Linn Park. The remains of the castle were demolished in 1980, having been declared unsafe, leaving only the foundations.{{Cite web |title=SNUFF MILL CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL |url=https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=10259&p=0 |access-date= |website=Glasgow City Council}}{{Cite web |title=Cathcart Castle (SM2105) |url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM2105 |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=portal.historicenvironment.scot}}

Originally part of the Parish of Govan in Renfrewshire, most of the ancient parish was annexed by the county of city of Glasgow in 1912.{{cite book|last1=Williamson|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Riches|first2=Anne|last3=Higgs|first3=Malcolm|title=The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow|date=2005|publisher=Yale Univ. Press|location=New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-300-09674-3|pages=534–536}} Cathcart is mainly a residential area, containing a mix of tenements, terraces and villas built from red or blonde sandstone. There are some historic buildings, including the Couper Institute (a public hall and library) and the Snuff Mill.[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSH00050&t=2 Cathcart Mill (Pollok House, 1830)], The Glasgow Story One of Alexander Thomson's most significant buildings, Holmwood House, is situated in Cathcart, close to the Glasgow city boundary.

Local industry includes ClydeUnion Pumps (previously part of Weir Group),[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA05122&t=2 Weir Group {{!}} Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs], The Glasgow Story and Scottish Power.

Cathcart is served by Cathcart railway station on the Cathcart Circle Line, as well as numerous bus routes.

Linn Park, the second largest park in the city, is within the surrounding area. The semi natural woodland, declared a local nature reserve in 2012,{{Cite web |title=SiteLink |url=https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/10192 |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=sitelink.nature.scot}} has a large path network and river walk.

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Cathcart contains several churches including Cathcart Baptist church, Cathcart United Free church, Cathcart Congregational church and two Church of Scotland churches; Cathcart Old and Cathcart Trinity. The present Cathcart Old building was opened in 1929 and sits across Carmunnock Road from the earlier churchyard which contains the tower from the previous church and a graveyard. Cathcart Trinity was formed in November 2002 from the union of the vacant charges of Cathcart South and New Cathcart. The former New Cathcart Church building was converted into housing in 2006.{{Cite web |title=212, 214 NEWLANDS ROAD, FORMER NEW CATHCART CHURCH INCLUDING HALL, PIERS AND RAILINGS (LB33950) |url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33950 |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=portal.historicenvironment.scot}}[https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/this-converted-south-side-church-13945642 This converted south side church is back up for sale - and it's had a bit of a makeover], Magdalene Dalziel, Glasgow Live, 22 December 2017 Cathcart's Catholic residents are served by St Gabriel's Church in Merrylee and by Christ the King in King's Park. Three congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses share a Kingdom Hall in Cathcart.

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• {{Commons category-inline|Cathcart, Glasgow}}
• [http://www.gerryblaikie.com/southglasgow/cathcart.htm Cathcart, Glasgow - Architecture & History]
• [https://cathcartdistrict.org.uk Cathcart & District Community Council]

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