Glasgow Glasgow was Scotland ' s largest city . It was located in the west of the country . East of Glasgow was Edinburgh . ( TV : " The Lie of the Land " ) History . Pre - 21st century . The people of Glasgow were called Glaswegians . During the Jacobite Rising of 1745 , they sided with King George II against Bonnie Prince Charlie . This caused the Second Doctor ' s companion Jamie McCrimmon , a former Jacobite , to resent Glaswegians . ( PROSE : " The Wheel of Ice " ) Henry Gordon Jago worked at the Glasgow Empire as a young man . ( AUDIO : " The Lonely Clock " ) The Second Doctor claimed that he took a degree under Joseph Lister in Glasgow in 1888 . ( TV : " The Moonbase " ) Commander Strax visited Glasgow in the 1890s due to the ease with which he could brawl there . Vastra wished he had never discovered it . He was in Glasgow when she summoned him for a conference call , meaning he had to be rendered unconscious by his opponent mid - fight . ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " ) 21st century . In the early 21st century , Torchwood Two was run from above a bank in Glasgow by a man named Archie . ( TV : " Everything Changes " ; COMIC : " Captain Jack and the Selkie " ) During the 2000s , Glasgow was one of the main cities affected by the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of over 1000 people within the UK . ( AUDIO : " The Longest Night " ) At 8 : 40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September 2009 , Glasgow received at least one of seventeen RTA s occurring across Britain as a result of the 456 compelling every human child on Earth to suddenly stop and proclaim their message : " we are coming . " ( TV : " " ) In 2011 , Night Dragon Haulage regularly shipped goods to Glasgow . ( TV : " The Curse of Clyde Langer " ) Following their first adventure in Victorian London , the Twelfth Doctor attempted to take Clara Oswald back home to London in her own time , however , he accidentally landed in Glasgow . There , Clara received a phone call from the Eleventh Doctor , convincing her that his successor was still the Doctor . Clara noted to the Twelfth Doctor that , with his new Scottish persona , he would be right at home in Glasgow . ( TV : " Deep Breath " ) The Doctor later got them coffee from a shop in Glasgow , but ended up meeting Clara several weeks later . ( TV : " Into the Dalek " ) Glasgow was among the world ' s major cities where forces of flying Cybermen emerged led by . Taking to the skies , they created a cloud of cyber - pollen above the city . These pollen clouds would then rain upon the grave s , recruiting the dead of the Earth into a new Cyberman army . When control of the Cyberman army went to the hands of the recently - converted Danny Pink , he ordered all Cybermen to return to the skies and self - destruct , taking the pollen clouds with them in their combined explosions . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) Post - 21st century . In 2595 , Bernice Summerfield went to Glasgow as part of her search for the Sword of Forever . ( PROSE : " The Sword of Forever " ) References . The Twelfth Doctor referred to Gallifrey as " Space Glasgow " . ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) Bernice Summerfield observed that the Twelfth Doctor had more of a Glaswegian accent as opposed to the Seventh Doctor ' s Highlands accent . ( PROSE : " Big Bang Generation " )