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East Kilbride Road, GLASGOW, G76 8RU

The sign is on East Kilbridge Road, about 250 metres beyond the last houses of Busby. The boundary between the council areas is shown on the map (the sign anticipates the boundary itself by about 100 metres).

High Load Board just outside Busby

Gated entrance to Bystone, a large house with gardens of impressive scale.

This is the road to Thorntonhall, which is an upmarket village with very desirable houses and some very expensive flats.

Despite featuring on current Ordnance Survey mapping Busbyside Farm was clearly demolished a number of years ago.

Busbyside Farm may have been demolished but the nearby triangulation pillar remains intact.

View towards John Dick Furniture from the Busby to East Kilbride road at 60 degrees.

The view is from the pavement beside East Kilbride Road (compare Image, taken nearby). The core of this cluster of buildings is a house that is thought to date from the sixteenth century; as the photo shows, a square tower is prominent in the view from this angle. "The History of Rutherglen and East-Kilbride" (1793), by the minister David Ure, contains a passage about the Peel; it is reproduced below in its entirety, with spellings as they appear in the book: "The Piel, which stands on the south bank of Kittoch, at the north-west boundary of the parish, is justly entitled to a place among the ancient buildings in Kilbride. The old castle, few vestiges of which now remain, stood about a quarter of a mile to the west of the present building; but when, and by whom it was built, is not known. The most considerable part of the present edifice was built near two centuries ago. Since that time it has received some additions which contribute greatly to the beauty of the place. Having experienced a great number of masters, it is now in the possession of Andrew Houston, Esq; of Jordon-hill. The house, though not at present inhabited, is in tolerable repair; and might, at a small expence, be rendered commodious. The Compass, containing the 32 points, is painted on the ceiling of the uppermost apartment: the index, which is fixed to an iron rod that goes through the roof, is directed by the wind in whatever point it blows." Note that an iron rod can still be seen emerging from the tower's apex. For a wider view (for context), taken on the same occasion from almost the same spot, see Image, which also identifies the distant buildings at the upper left corner of the present picture. Some other contributors' photographs are also linked from there.