IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Round Riding Road, DUMBARTON, G82 2HU

The same road is shown in Image; see that item for further information. The present photograph is a view in the opposite direction, and the next turning on the left is for Miller Court. In the fenced-off area to the left, between pavement and houses, the Knowle Burn flows parallel to the road.

Looking east from close to the junction with Boghead Road.

This stretch of Boghead Road in suburban Dumbarton is very narrow and has no pedestrian pavement. Nevertheless, the road is the sole access to a number of residential properties.

Looking north-west from the cul-de-sac end of this residential road in suburban Dumbarton.

The photograph was taken near the eastern end of the road, where it meets the A82, at the foot of Garshake Road. Round Riding Road follows the same line as a road shown on the first-edition OS map (c.1860), although there were only a few buildings alongside it at that time. The road is not named on that map, but other writings of the time show that it was then called Roundredding Road. Very similar spellings of the name appear on earlier maps from the 1740s to the 1820s (see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Dumbarton-Cemetery#the-location for the details). The Pont/Blaeu map of the Lennox (published in 1654, but based on surveys carried out in the 1580s-90s) shows a "Barundridain" here. That name is presumably the ancestor of the later forms "Roundredding" and "Round Riding". Returning to what is visible in the photograph, the turning for Kilpatrick View is just ahead, on the left. The escarpment visible in the background is Image The distant area of housing, located on the slopes in front of the escarpment, just left of centre, is the eastern end of Bellsmyre (compare, for example, Image). On the right, between the pavement and the houses, is a fenced-off area, where a burn flows parallel to the road (and towards the photographer's position). It is not named on the map, but is the Knowle Burn, which had formed the eastern boundary of the medieval burgh. For a view in the opposite direction along the same road, see Image

Houses on Dumbuck Road in Dumbarton, part of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Seen here from Stirling Road. You will notice the "Yes" flyers in the windows for the forthcoming Scottish independence referendum.

Image is in the foreground. The nearest house is called Balclutha Lodge; after the death of his first wife, and his subsequent remarriage, nineteenth-century local historian Donald MacLeod (Image) lived there.