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Nobleston Estate, ALEXANDRIA, G83 9DF

View along the A813 at Ladyton Bonhill looking south this is the main route between Balloch and Bonhill to Dumbarton and Glasgow

A housing association is carrying out work on the building at the top of the steps, and on others nearby (out of shot).

This housing estate in Nobleston, seen here from its entrance, is called St Ronan's, and was built in 2006. However, St Ronan's Primary School, a few hundred metres to the north, pre-dates this estate.

Stirling Road A813 looking north, Junction to Main Street Bonhill left of Bonhill signage, Stirling Road continues northward beyond Bonhill signage. Nobleston Estate on top right of photograph.

Stirling Road is on the right, and Main Street, Bonhill, on the left. In the left background, Image can be seen indistinctly beside Main Street. The houses on the higher ground at the far right are in Nobleston.

For more information on this row of buildings, and for different views, see: Image and Image Behind the hedge on the other side of the main road is a large area of recreation ground.

This long row of two-storey tenement buildings is 1-43 Dillichip Terrace. Dating from 1885, it is one of the few surviving examples (in this area) of housing that was originally built for workers in the local dyeing and printing industry. See also Image and Image At the time of writing, building number 1 (at the far end) was a shop, but the remainder of the terrace was being used for housing. Along the front of the terrace, there are several places where an original door has been partially blocked up to form a window, as is clearly evident from the resulting discontinuities in the brickwork. However, for most of them, a much more obvious sign is that the original doorsteps are still there. As regards the terrace as a whole, compare Image, which is very similar, and which was also built to house local workers.

Some of the mist that had filled the Leven and Clyde valleys earlier in the morning lingered here. The name Croft Huggan is applied to this area of woodland on large-scale mapping. Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (mid-eighteenth century) makes the origin of the name clear: there used to be a farm called Crofthoggan nearby.

The Ladyton and O'Hare areas to the north.

Footpath on the A813 Stirling Road looking north towards Main Street, Dillichip and Carman Hill on the top left.