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Hillside Road, DUMBARTON, G82 5LX

The photograph was taken from the western end of the street, at its junction with Image

The photograph was taken from the western end of the street, at the junction with Barrs Road.

For a view from further ahead, see Image On the name, see Image

Ahead, at the entrance gate of a driveway, Kirkton Road branches off to the left. Barrs Road continues to the north, beyond the area of housing: see Image, which also explains the road's name.

The view is from Barrs Road; compare Image, from further along it. The houses that are on the left in that picture, and in the background of this one, are on Kilmahew Avenue. The hills in the background are on the other side of the Clyde.

The photograph was taken from the same spot as Image, but is a view in the opposite direction along the road, which, as viewed in the present image, leads into Cardross. At the far end of the field to the left of the road, the backs of houses in Image are visible. The buildings on the right are alongside Kirkton Road (see Image). The same section of road, as viewed from the other end, is shown in Image; the origin of the road's name is also explained there.

The road passes Image and Image, and a few other buildings (see, for example, Image); it ends at Cairniedrouth Farm (see Image for a distant view of that farm). This farm road is a continuation of Image; the photograph was taken from the junction of Barrs Road and Image As for the name of the road, there used to be a Barrs Farm, close to the point from which the photograph was taken. It is shown on the first-edition OS map of c.1860, at around Image It appears as "Barr" on Ainslie's 1821 map. There is an entry in the 1797-98 Farm Horse Tax Rolls for Mr John Gray of Barrs. In connection with the same tenant of the farm (whose surname is spelled "Grey" below), some curious details are supplied by David Murray in his book "Old Cardross" (1880). When discussing local agriculture, the author mentions that the cultivation of turnips "travelled northwards very slowly, and in 1774 Lord Stonefield could not get his tenants in the Vale of Leven to take it up even for a premium, while twenty years later about 24 acres contained all the turnip husbandry of Dumbartonshire. One of the earliest who attempted it was Sheriff Grey; about 1790 he introduced a drill plough for turnips which was the first that was used in the county". For a view back along the same straight section of road, from its far end, see Image

Barrs Terrace is on the left. For the individual streets, see Image and Image

The photograph was taken from the junction with Image

This is part of the Fairways housing development in Cardross. The houses had only recently been built when this picture was taken, and they are located beside Cardross Golf Course. The houses to the left of Braid Drive occupy what was formerly Cardross Park; the park had two lodges on the main road, and a mansion house further to the north.