- Sauchiehall Street
Sauchiehall Street is one of the main shopping/business streets in the city centre of
Glasgow ,Scotland . Along withBuchanan 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 theM8 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 an
Anglification . The correct or at least former word is 'haugh', a Scots word roughly meaning the land at the bottom of a river valley. Sauchiehall roughly translates to 'Way of the Willows'.
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