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Milton Brae, DUMBARTON, G82 2TU

The picture was taken from the point where the path starts; it branches off from the side of the road, which is called Milton Brae. The path, part of a route called the Crags Circular Path, heads in this direction (WNW) for about 120 metres, before turning to head SSW (see, for example, Image). It eventually meets the A82: see Image and Image The route of the path is marked on the 1:25000 map. (Note that the Crags Circular Path itself is considerably longer; see http://www.geograph.org.uk/tagged/the+crags+circular+path#photo=5309264 for a selection of photographs along that route.) The gatepost on the right is one of a pair flanking the driveway to a house. There is a cut bench mark on it, though it is a little overgrown: Image Just to the left of the photographer's position, and out of shot, was a flyer (one of several in the area) protesting against a proposal to slice a huge chunk off the top of Dumbuck Hill. The local planning committee had rejected the proposal, but the quarry operators had appealed to the Scottish Government. This flyer (like the other copies) had recently been modified to celebrate the Scottish Government's decision to reject that appeal.

Milton Brae is the road that leads straight ahead, in the left-hand side of the photograph. The road branching off to the right is shown in Image; it leads to that farm and to Riggangower Quarry Landfill Site; however, the Crags Circular Path, a route for pedestrians and cyclists, leads partway along that road; see Image for further details.

I noticed it in passing, despite its poor condition; it is on the large gatepost that is shown on the right in Image According to the OS database, it is a 3rd-order cut bench mark, 22.361 metres above Newlyn datum.

The path is the one shown in Image, but the present view is from about 100 metres farther on, and is in the opposite direction. On the right is an object like a trough, but much smaller; it is overflowing.

The path, part of a route called the Crags Circular Path, is a continuation of the one shown heading off to the left in Image In the area shown in the present picture, the path has left the houses behind. There is a field to the left, behind the trees. To the right (east) of the path, the ground, greatly overgrown, slopes down to the course of the Milton Burn. The Milton Printworks used to stand on the other side of the burn. For a view in the opposite direction from a point about 100 metres ahead, see Image

Middleton Farm is behind trees on the right. The view is from a little farther along the road that is shown branching off to the right, leading uphill, in Image

This part of the road is between Milton Brae (see Image) and the Image There is a gas pipeline marker in the right foreground. Image is in the background.

This section of the farm track is part of a much longer route called the Crags Circular Path; specifically, the section of the track that is also part of that route is the one between the points shown in Image and Image

Milton Brae is the name of the road. This is a view downhill; the River Clyde can be seen in the background. For a view uphill from about 200 metres further down the road, see Image, which also mentions a few features that can be seen alongside the road.

The subject is as in Image, but the view is from further ahead. Only the nearest ten metres or so of the track are in the same grid square as the photographer.