Cardonald

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Cardonald is an outlying suburb of the Scottish city of Glasgow. Formerly a village in its own right, it lies to the southwest of the city and is bounded to the south by the White Cart Water. The area was part of Renfrewshire until 1926 when the villages of Cardonald, Halfway and Crookston and their surrounding farmland were annexed to Glasgow.

The lands of Cardonald were the property of the Stewarts of Cardonald, a junior branch of the House of Stewart. The Place of Cardonald, built in 1565, was demolished and replaced by a farmhouse in 1848. The land was later owned by the Lords of Blantyre from the 17th century to the 20th century. In the 1930s, the Corporation of Glasgow bought the Cardonald Estates and built flatted cottages and other housing. Cardonald College was opened in 1972.