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Coordinates: 55°53′35″N 4°13′27″W / 55.893103°N 4.224298°W / 55.893103; -4.224298
Stobhill is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. Part of Springburn, it gives its name to Stobhill Hospital.
Stobhill Hospital is an Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Hospital, located in the district of Springburn in the north of Glasgow, Scotland. It serves the population of North Glasgow and part of East Dunbartonshire.
The hospital was built between 1901 and 1904 as a Poor Law hospital by the Glasgow Parish Council, to an 1899-1900 competition winning design by Glasgow architects, Thomson & Sandilands, and was formally opened on 15 September 1904; the same day as the Western District Hospital at Oakbank in Maryhill and the Eastern District Hospital at Duke Street. The original buildings are now protected as category B listed buildings.
It was built with 1,867 beds organised in several two-storey red brick Nightingale ward blocks on a sprawling, 47-acre (190,000 m2) campus on the edge of Springburn Park. The Hamiltonhill Branch of the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway, which ran past the northern boundary of the hospital grounds, facilitated the transport of coal and supplies to the hospital. The cost of the building was £250,000. It featured a large clocktower at the centre of the site, which has become a dominant landmark in the north of the city. The motto of the new hospital was Health is Wealth.