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Maple Avenue, DUMBARTON, G82 5HT

This street leads away from, and is immediately to the north of, Image

This street is located just to the north of the western end of Image Immediately to the north of Maple Avenue is Image

This is the western end of the road. Not far ahead, where a car is parked beside an evergreen tree, Image leads off to the right. The photograph was taken from the top of a path that is shown, between two hedges, in Image This end of the road would fall within the area that is called Hawthornhill, but its other end is located in Castlehill. See Image and Image The point from which the present photograph was taken is close to Image; that farm is shown on the first-edition OS map (surveyed in 1860); it was located at Image The name appears as "Haithorn Hill" on the Pont/Blaeu map of the Lennox (surveyed in the 1580s-90s, published in 1654). On the Pont/Blaeu map, "Clerkhil" and "Heuack" are shown just to the south of "Haithorn Hill", and "Castelhill" and "Airdoch Beg" are just to the north. A convent ( http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2335961 ) later occupied the site of Clarkhill; Havoc was at the shore ( http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2411704 ), and its name is still associated with that area; Castlehill is the name of an area of Dumbarton ( http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2404694 ); and Ardochbeg is now a ruin ( http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/927345 ). In his "Old Cardross" (1880), David Murray discusses these farms, and gives an earlier name for Hawthornhill: "Turning south from Ardochbeg and below Whiteleys is Hawthornhill, or, as it used to be called, Latriehill [i.e., wet hill slope]. Beyond it, overlooking Clyde, is Clerkhill, and below the latter at the foot of the old raised beach is the Havock" (the bracketed comment on the meaning of Latriehill is the author's own remark, not mine). See the comments on "leitir" at Image for more on the signification of that element in Gaelic place-names (it differs a little from Murray's interpretation). Such a derivation would at least be appropriate here, in that the land at what is now Hawthornhill slopes down towards the Clyde.

It is on Image (near right and background left), with Perrays Grove branching off at the near left. The house behind the right-hand edge of the roundabout is on Maple Avenue, a part of Hawthornhill, an area of housing which is adjacent to Lennox Gardens, but distinct from it and separated from it by a fence.

To stay on the path to Dalmoak that is mentioned in the end-note, it is necessary to turn left just ahead: see Image for the view from just around the corner.

The view is the one obtained by turning left just after the point shown in Image For a view from about 70 metres further along this path, see Image, where the route to Dalmoak that is mentioned in the end-note leaves the area of housing.

The picture was taken from Image Compare Image, a distant view in the opposite direction; the embankment can be seen here, as can a heavy drain cover that is visible on the left, on the near side of the hedge, in the present picture. Behind the hedge is a path (shown better in the picture just linked), which was once the road leading to Hawthornhill Farm from the main road (which followed the present-day line of Cardross Road). The houses in the left background are at Westcliff. Those on the right are at Lennox Gardens (an area of housing where many of the streets have "Perrays" in their name; see https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/17333 for the significance of that). Some play areas are out of shot to the left: see Image

After following the side of a hedge (Image) and then ascending a grassy slope, the route enters a built-up area here at Cumbrae Crescent South.

The view is from about 70 metres further along the path shown in Image, continuing in the same direction. At this point, the route to Dalmoak that is mentioned in the end-note leaves the area of housing, and carries on straight ahead, through a gap in the trees. It then leads down a slope, as shown in Image

This is the western end of the street; for the other end, see Image This area is also part of a core path from Hawthornhill to Dalmoak. That route leads uphill from Cardross Road (see Image), then cuts through Image to emerge at the point from which the present photograph was taken. It then continues directly ahead, leaving Hawthornhill by means of the western end of Cumbrae Crescent South, just left of the centre of the photo. At that point, the route leaves the built-up area behind; for the view from that spot, see Image