Image, and Braehead (formerly Easter Hole*) is shown on the maps at Image, just to the south of the main road; those buildings are now known as Braehead Cottages, or as Image For a view in the opposite direction, see Image In the present view, the junction with Image can be seen on the right, almost opposite the blue car. [(*) W.C.Maugham, in his "Annals of Garelochside" (1897), on page 263, while aware that Easter Hole was simply another name for Foul Hole, seems to treat that farm as separate from Braehead: "Easter Hole or Foul Hole and Braehead succeed, with Sandybraes, Castlehill, and Muirhouses fronting them" (note "them"). However, other printed reference works treat Braehead as a later name for Easter/Foul Hole; compare, for example, "North Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide" (F.A.Walker & F.Sinclair, 1992), on the so-called Bruce's Stables, "built for Easter Hole, later Braehead Farm".]."> Oxhill Road
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Oxhill Road

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Oxhill Road

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 1 Feb 2013

This area of Dumbarton is called Oxhill, after the Oxen Hill that is depicted here on the first-edition OS map, which was surveyed in 1860. Oxen Hill was described in the OS Object Name Books (compiled in the 1890s) as "a small arable hill on the farm of Braehead". On the second-edition OS map (c.1898), it was called Ox Hill. Oxen Hill or Ox Hill was at Image, and Braehead (formerly Easter Hole*) is shown on the maps at Image, just to the south of the main road; those buildings are now known as Braehead Cottages, or as Image For a view in the opposite direction, see Image In the present view, the junction with Image can be seen on the right, almost opposite the blue car. [(*) W.C.Maugham, in his "Annals of Garelochside" (1897), on page 263, while aware that Easter Hole was simply another name for Foul Hole, seems to treat that farm as separate from Braehead: "Easter Hole or Foul Hole and Braehead succeed, with Sandybraes, Castlehill, and Muirhouses fronting them" (note "them"). However, other printed reference works treat Braehead as a later name for Easter/Foul Hole; compare, for example, "North Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide" (F.A.Walker & F.Sinclair, 1992), on the so-called Bruce's Stables, "built for Easter Hole, later Braehead Farm".]

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Latitude
55.946854
Longitude
-4.583111