Old Pollok House and its Amazing Gardens

in #travel8 years ago

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Today we were gifted with some half decent weather and decided to go for a bit of a gad about somewhere. We decided on Pollok House.

Pollok House is a large Georgian stately home located in the massive Pollok Country Park in the south side of Glasgow in Scotland. Glasgow is littered with parks but this one takes the biscuit for sheer size.

The house is set in some ridiculously grand grounds which are open to the public. It looks out onto the River Cart and is a little magnificent.

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The grounds are divided up into many areas. To the left is the small maze garden.
Don't worry, I didn't get lost!
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The house was owned by the Maxwell family who were quite obviously as rich as fuck. They lived there for over six centuries. I don't know if that was the same people in a vampyric immortal sense or generations of inbred sub royalty with small chins and beady, darting eyes...

To the right of the house some grand stairs leading off to some well manicured, walled gardens.
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Ahhhhhh, yonder lies a grassy sea
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Of course, where there is a sea then there should be a fine boat for sailing.
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And look! A little lighthouse.
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Obviously to warn the maids when the master of the house had imbibed a little too much brandy and fancied parting something other than the grassy seas of his estate.

Beyond the grassy sea lies a rectangularly bound path leading too the dinosaur garden.
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We all liked the dinosaur garden. There were lots of bizarre plants and at any moment I expected some reptilian creature to bound out and paw at my happysacks with hungry hands.
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But no. Only the dead lay here
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Signs beckoned us onward from the Dino garden towards a copse of trees. What was going on here, fairies you say?
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Why indeed. We stumbled upon a fairy garden!

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Compete with a cunningly carved dragon, slumbering under a pile of gold coin.
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And that ended our visit to Polok house after my daughter had a dramatic meltdown over the fact that despite their being many fairy houses there were no actual fairies.

I daresay if she was of an older age she would have claimed to have been sold a pup but still, a fabulous day out was had by all. I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

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A venerable building with a wonderful park..... wonderful pictures!!

Thank you. It is truly a stunning old house and location!!

WOW! Fantastic pics! What a amazing place!

Cheers mate, it really is awesome!!

I like your post very much, time to relax with the fairies :)

Well thank you. It is that time indeed!

Elegant house and wonderful gardens! Thanks so much for sharing!

You are very welcome, thank you for looking!

You're welcome! ;)

I would totally live there. But I wouldn't want to clean it. lol

Yeah me neither, the was a photo inside of the staff back in the day and there were about fifty of them!!

Nice gardens in an expensive piece of real estate.
Nice that it's open to public.

I like that fact too. You can wander around at will!

fabulous! I really do have to get to Scotland some day soon!

Oh yes indeed, it's a great place!

It was not bad at all!!

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