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Parkhead () 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.Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches & Malcolm Higgs, The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow. London: Penguin 1990 It borders with Shettleston and Tollcross to the immediate east, and Camlachie and Dennistoun to the west.
Parkhead Cross is a major road junction which is the meeting point of Gallowgate, Duke Street, Westmuir Street, Tollcross Road and Burgher Street, Glasgow's Crosses, Glasgow History, 28 May 2016 which together form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction, including several fine buildings making the junction notable, such as the former Glasgow Savings Bank. The junction, which also incorporates the northern termination of the major Springfield Road thoroughfare, can become very busy due to traffic for football games at nearby Celtic Park.
Most of the district's amenities and places of worship are situated within a few blocks of the Cross.
Parkhead Hospital,Greater Glasgow Health Board Bulletin December 1988 which opened on 12 November 1988, was said to be the only new psychiatric hospital to be built in Scotland in the 20th century. (However, some 18th and 19th century institutions did move to new buildings during the 20th century.) It was built on part of the old forge land, next to the Parkhead Health Centre, and replaced the psychiatric and psycho-geriatric admission wards of both Duke Street Hospital (formerly known as the Eastern District Hospital) and Gartloch Hospital – both units moved into the new hospital in 1988 on the day of a Old Firm match at the nearby Celtic Park. The hospital closed in 2018, with the intention of building a new health facility on the site.
From the early 1960s, Celtic conducted most of their training routines at a facility on the periphery of Parkhead named Barrowfield, east of Celtic Park (it is not located in the Barrowfield residential area which lies to the west of the stadium toward Bridgeton). By 2005, those facilities were seen as antiquated, particularly in comparison to those of their Old Firm rivals Rangers at Auchenhowie. Celtic considered building new facilities at their site in Barrowfield, but instead decided to develop the Lennoxtown training centre outside the city. Today there are still football pitches on the land as well as a large Celtic social club; the Celtic first team temporarily resumed training at Barrowfield in November 2011, after a spate of training ground injuries led manager Neil Lennon to fear that the Lennoxtown pitches were responsible. In 2019, Celtic announced plans to redevelop Barrowfield for use by their youth academy and women's team, including an indoor pitch and a matchday venue, augmenting the Lennoxtown base which would continue to be used by the first team squad and strengthening their connection to their roots in the East End of Glasgow. Celtic pitch plans for Barrowfield training ground expansion, Urban Realm, 6 June 2019 Celtic FC lodges plans for training centre redevelopment, Scottish Construction Now, 6 June 2019 Celtic announce major east end re-development plans, Glasgow Live, 5 June 2019 Celtic to redevelop Barrowfield training ground, BBC Sport, 5 June 2019
There are also two lawn bowls and a derelict sports ground ( Helenvale Park, formerly used by the Glasgow Corporation Transport department which had a large bus and tram depot nearby) Kick off! (Museum of Transport, 1924), The Glasgow Story Sports day (Museum of Transport, 1950s), The Glasgow Story Helenvale Sports Complex finally set to disappear, Secret Scotland, 18 December 2018 in the vicinity – Crownpoint Sports Complex, a replacement modern outdoor athletics track, is located beyond the western border of the district adjacent to St Mungo's Academy. After the 2014 Commonwealth Games was held in Glasgow, Parkhead now has international-class sporting facilities within walking distance: the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome are located in nearby Dalmarnock.
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