An affluent residential suburb of Glasgow, Dumbreck lies 2 miles (3 km) to the southwest of the city centre, bordered by Bellahouston Park to the west and the M77 Motorway and Pollokshields to the east. The M8 Motorway lies to the north. It is believed the name comes from the Gaelic Dunbreac meaning "hill speckled with daisies".
At the end of the 18th century, the land here belonged to William Wordrop who built Dumbreck House, which was later sold to the owner of the adjacent Bellahouston Estate, who changed its name to Bellahouston House. In the 19th C. the area passed to the Pollok Estate. The streets were laid out between 1888 and 1907. Houses are primarily Victorian two-storey villas set within large gardens, although a few have been demolished and replaced with flats. Dumbreck was designated a Conservation Area in 1975.
Located here are the A-listed Craigie Hall, built in 1872 and featuring early work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928), and Hazelwood School, which opened in 2007 for pupils with sensory impairment and complex learning needs. Dumbreck Railway Station is located to the east of the district next to the M77 Motorway.
