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Glasgow Live
National
Lee Dalgetty

The Glasgow district that's bizarrely named after a 19th century Swedish opera star

It's one of Glasgow's most curious oddities - just how exactly did the Jenny Lind area, an unassuming estate south of the Clyde, end up sharing its name with a 19th century Swedish opera star?

Largely built in the 1920s, the area used to be part of the Maxwell family’s Pollok Estate farming land, where Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind spent a night in one of their farmhouses.

After her stay, the landowners decided the inn would renamed after Jenny.

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