High Ruchill is an area of Ruchill

Ruchill

Ruchill is a district in the city of Glasgow. It lies within the Canal Ward of North Glasgow in the area between the Maryhill and Possilpark areas of the city. It has traditionally been characterised by a high degree of deprivation and social problems...

 in the city of Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. Unlike the rest of Ruchill was traditionally and much of the rest of the city, High Ruchill's dwellings are not of the tenemental property type but semi detached properties. Also dissimilar to the rest of Ruchill in that poverty and a high level of social problems were not a common feature of High Ruchill. The properties were built during the Interwar period

Interwar period

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as council managed homes, but many have subsequently been bought by their tenants under "right to buy" agreements.