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Celtic Park (Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Cheilteach) is a football stadium and the home of Scottish Premiership team Celtic Football Club, in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. With a capacity of 60,832, it is the largest football stadium in Scotland , and the eighth-largest stadium in the United Kingdom .
Lilybank is a neighbourhood in the east of Glasgow, Scotland.Neighbouring areas Newbank to the west, Braidfauld to the east and the eastern part of Parkhead to the north. The A74 London Road runs to the south, with the land on the opposite side between the road and the River Clyde not used for residential purposes: the Barrowfield football training ground owned by Celtic F.C., and the Dewar's ...
Located to the south-east of the Eastern Necropolis graveyard in the Parkhead district of Glasgow, Celtic Park was opened on 8 May 1888. [2] The club had obtained a lease on the site on 13 November 1887, [1] and over the next six months Celtic founder Brother Walfrid brought together a large group of Irish volunteers to build the ground; [3] they erected an uncovered stand with a capacity of ...
Parkhead (Scots: Pairkheid) [1] is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road (now the Gallowgate and Tollcross Road) and Westmuir Street. Glasgow's Eastern Necropolis cemetery was laid out in the area in 1847 beside the Gallowgate. [2]
A second phase of the Forge Shopping Centre in the mid-1990s incorporated a new indoor market and bingo hall to the east of the initial site, and a retail park, operated by a separate company, to the west (the latter being built over part of the historic Camlachie neighbourhood). [1]
The newest market update has now launched in FarmVille 2, bringing a Celtic item theme to the store. This theme comes with new crops, trees, animals and more that will be available to purchase for ...
The stadium attendance records for Rangers' Ibrox (118,567, January 1939) [224] [225] and Celtic's Celtic Park (officially 83,500 but estimated at 92,000 with around 10,000 more locked out, January 1938) [226] [227] were both set at Old Firm matches; however while the Ibrox figure is the Rangers club record (and the record for any domestic ...
Parkhead Stadium was a railway station in the east end of Glasgow.It was opened by the Caledonian Railway as Parkhead on 1 February 1897. [1]In recognition of its proximity to the Celtic Park football stadium, it was known as Parkhead (for Celtic Park) by 1904; [2] and it was also referred to in some timetables as Parkhead for Celtic Park.