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Kirstie Place, ALEXANDRIA, G83 9PN

Footpath next to the A813 looking south towards Mill Fields, Bonhill. Dillichip Close to the right hand side.

A subdivision of New Bonhill is called Redburn, after this burn. I have had a different burn, the one that currently flows through the Redburn area of housing (it flows east-west through Image), pointed out to me as "the Red Burn". It would be natural to make that identification, but OS maps from the first-edition (1860) to the present-day disagree. The Red Burn is the one shown here. It flows along the southern edge of the New Bonhill estates. The course of the burn is important in that it served as the boundary between Dumbarton and Bonhill Parishes.

The steps lead up from Stirling Road. The large area of housing on the hillside is divided into several areas; the part at the top of the steps is Nobleston, derived from the older designation Bonhill-Noble; for example, a retour of Charles II speaks of the lands of "Bonyle Noble alias Noblestoune" (*). There was also a Bonhill-Napier and a Bonhill-Lindsay; they are mentioned in the same retour (as "Bonyle Naiper" and "Bonyle Lindsay"). Each of the three lands was named after the family who held it. According to page 152 of Donald MacLeod's "Historic Families ... of the Lennox" (1891), Bonhill-Noble was in the hands of the Nobles of Ardardan, a family prominent in the area. As is explained at Image, the name Bonhill-Napier refers to the Napiers of Kilmahew. Finally, the name Bonhill-Lindsay reflects the fact that Patrick de Lindsay had been granted lands in Bonhill by Malcolm, Earl of Lennox (early fourteenth century). (*) The retour can be found on pages 100-102 of the Lennox Cartulary ["Cartularium Comitatus de Levenax, etc." (1833), Maitland Club Edition], a collection of charters in medieval Latin. For the grants made to "Patricio de Lindsay", whom Malcolm created a hereditary bailie and forester of the Lennox estate, see pages 49-52 of the same work.

This area of housing is just to the south of Image, on the western side of the main road (visible at the far right) through Bonhill. Carman Hill, Millburn Muir (with Image), and other nearby muirs occupy the central part of the background.

This is the burn as seen from the pavement beside the road leading up into Nobleston. As the first-edition OS maps (surveyed in 1860) show, the course of this burn was part of the boundary between the parishes of Bonhill and Dumbarton.

Looking North-West Dillichip Close in Bonhill Alexandria. A housing development. The postcode is within the Leven ward, which is in the Constituency of West Dunbartonshire. In the background is the Carman Hill.

This is the northern part of the site, seen from across Stirling Road. Some work was still taking place here; landscaping had recently been carried out. For the southern part of the site, see Image Click on the end-note title for related pictures.

The picture was taken beside a bus stop. As the map shows, Strathleven Estate is on the near side of the road. When this picture was taken, an application to develop the land on the other side of the road had recently been submitted; the present picture will serve for comparison with others taken after work began. That area is better seen in a view from the hedge on the other side of the road: Image A sign that had appeared here by July 2016 gives "Mill Fields" as the name of the development.

The tree is one of those shown in Image (a picture of the site before development).

At this stage of the construction project, temporary traffic lights had been installed on Stirling Road, and some lanes had been closed.