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Perrays Grove, DUMBARTON, G82 5HY

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.

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

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

The foreground part of the road is in the same grid square as the photographer, but it crosses the grid line about 20 metres before reaching the houses. The area of housing as a whole is called Lennox Gardens, but the street names are all of a kind — Perrays Drive/Way/Crescent/Court/Grove — referring probably to nearby Image or, with a lesser likelihood, to other Perrays place-names formerly in use; see https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/17333 for a detailed discussion of these names. The small structure to the right of the road, just before the houses, is an electricity sub-station.

This is a view along the southwestern edge of the woods, to the southern corner. As the map shows, this corner of the woods is not far from housing (some houses can be seen in the right background). In particular, Lennox Gardens, with its Perray-themed street-names, is nearby; see the end-note.

The feature is shown from the other side in Image It is possibly the result of quarrying, but, as noted at the link just given, I am not being dogmatic about its origin.

This scoop or hollow is at the southwestern edge of the woods, near the southern corner: see Image and Image Given that there is a known bomb crater in the centre of the woods, I considered that what is shown here might be another crater, but its overall appearance suggests that it may instead be the result of small-scale quarrying. I wished to photographically record the feature here for interest, but without being dogmatic about its true nature. It is shown from the other side in Image

Modern housing encroaches on former farmland on the outskirts of Dumbarton.

On entering Dumbarton from the direction of Cardross, by means of the main road, this is the first area of housing seen to the north of the road. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/17333 on the "Perrays" Name, which was associated with Image long before this housing was built.