Partick

Partick, a town of Lanarkshire, prettily situated, chiefly on a rising ground on the Kelvin, immediately above its junction with the Clyde, and 3 miles WNW. of the Cross of Glasgow, of which city it now forms a suburb. Nine-tenths of the workmen of Partick are engaged in shipbuilding-yards, but there are also many flour-mills, cotton-factories, and bleach-fields. A large proportion of the inhabitants are engaged in business in Glasgow, and for their accommodation extensive ranges of handsome villas have been built here. Partick was made a police-burgh in 1852-66. Pop. (1851) 3131; (1881) 27,410; (1891) 36,538. See Wallace's Parish of Govan (1877).