IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
DUMBARTON, G82 2SH

This photograph of Barnhill House was taken from a nearby public footpath. For a view of that footpath, and of the lodge at Barnhill, see: Image The building, as it now stands, is largely of nineteenth-century construction, but Barnhill was the seat of the Colquhouns from at least as early as the sixteenth century: see Image See also Image, which shows some of the other buildings at this location.

The lodge visible here is one of a group of buildings at Barnhill. The lodge stands alone, while some of the other buildings that make up Barnhill are clustered together about 200 metres to the north-west: Image The footpath in this photograph is part of a route called Overtoun House Circular Path. A small sign is visible ahead, at a T-junction: the sign reminds walkers that the circular path continues to the right; the other branch, to the left, is a private road, and leads past the lodge and towards Barnhill House.

The path passes Carnoch House here. It is part of the old road to Barnhill that is described in the end-note.

This is the opposite view to Image The path is part of the old road mentioned in the end-note. The woods to the left (north) of the path are marked on the map. Large-scale mapping shows the names Barwood Hill and Dumbar there. A nearby house is called Barnhill: Image I believe it was, at a very early period, called Barhill, thus relating it, by the "bar" element, to the other names just mentioned; however, I cannot find a reference to confirm this at the moment. At any rate, it appears as "Barnhill" (the current spelling) on the Blaeu map of the Lennox, which is based on surveys made c.1580s—90s.

The building on the left is Image, and the one closer to the centre of the photo is its former lodge: Image One of the entrances of the Overtoun Estate is visible at the far end of the road; see Image For the more southerly sections of the road, see Image and Image

Part of the Overtoun House Circular Path.

These ruins are beside the road leading into Overtoun Estate. See Image for the main description of the remains to be seen in this area. Click on the end-note title for other views.

The road leading to this entrance from the south is called Milton Brae. Followed in this direction, the road leads to Image

This rocky knoll is about midway between Image and Image The name Image refers specifically to the steep slopes on the right.