Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street is one of the main shopping/business streets in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Along with Buchanan Street and Argyle Street, it forms the 'Golden Z' in Glasgow city centre, containing the majority of Glasgow's high street and chain stores.

Although commonly associated with the city centre, Sauchiehall street is over 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long, finally meeting Argyle Street in the West End, in front of the Kelvingrove Museum. The two streets run parallel through the city centre, before starting to conjoin westward of the M8 motorway at Charing Cross.

At the eastern end of Sauchiehall Street is the Buchanan Galleries, one of the largest city centre redevelopments in the UK. At the western end, towards Charing Cross, there is an abundance of restaurants, bars and student-friendly clubs.

The suffix 'hall' is actually a corruption brought about by the influence of England on Scotland. The correct or at least former word is 'haugh', a Scots word roughly meaning the land at the bottom of a river valley.

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