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Overwood Drive, DUMBARTON, G82 2JF

A82 junction with Round Riding Road

The pond is empty after a prolonged period of dry weather; see Image for a view from another angle. The buildings in the background are on the other side of Garshake Road. Those on the left are beside the main entrance of Dumbarton Cemetery.

This is a view across the area shown in the foreground of Image Garshake Road runs behind it. The small building at the far left is beside Dumbarton Cemetery and is the offices of a firm of memorial sculptors.

The picture shows the construction of flood defences on the Knowle Burn at Garshake. Image are in the background. See Image and Image for later views.

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

West Dunbartonshire Council's offices are visible straight ahead. There is an entrance to Dumbarton Cemetery on the left.

The County Buildings, shown in the background of an equivalent earlier view, Image, have been reduced to rubble.

See Image for the same area at an earlier stage in the construction process, and Image for a later view. In both pictures, Image can be seen in the background.