'a pool', Scots: Powk) is a large housing estate on the south-western side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

[1] The main features of the area are the nearby Pollok Country Park, where the Burrell Collection is now housed, the ruins of Crookston Castle (within the north part of residential Pollok) which Mary, Queen of Scots once visited, and the Silverburn Centre, one of Glasgow's major indoor retail complexes.

Recent developments in the late 20th and early 21st century have created an adjoining neighbourhood to the west of Pollok at Crookston, Glasgow, stretching from Rosshall to Roughmussel and including conversions of the original buildings of Leverndale Hospital, alongside its newer facilities.

In some contexts these neighbourhoods are referred to as separate localities, and otherwise are considered parts of 'Greater Pollok' (a ward of Glasgow City Council), along with Nitshill, South Nitshill, Parkhouse and Darnley further south which share the same G53 postcode;[3] Househillwood is next to the district's central amenities and bus terminus.

[13][14][15] Pollok suffered the same social problems that also emerged from the other large housing schemes (Castlemilk, Drumchapel and Easterhouse).

Even schools, something which eventually were well provisioned, were not built until some years after the main wave of housing, with pupils being transported to facilitates elsewhere at considerable cost and disruption.

The post-war tenement buildings were of poor quality and suffered from damp, condensation and lack of soundproofing.

Local manufacturing jobs were outsourced to overseas countries and unemployment rates grew to unprecedented levels.

Those who were able to left the area, the remaining population enduring poverty, lack of opportunities, ill-health and lower life expectancy.