IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hardy Hill, HELENSBURGH, G84 9RZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hardy Hill, G84 9RZ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (22 Images Found)
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1
Woodland path in Churchill Estate
The properties in the background are on a street called Hardy Hill; they were being refurbished when this picture was taken.
See also Image
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 22 May 2013
0.07 miles
2
Woodland paths in Churchill Estate
This area of woodland lies within the housing estate (compare Image); that is why lamp posts can be seen beside the paths.
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 22 May 2013
0.10 miles
3
Grassy space near Helensburgh
This area is between the houses of Churchill Estate (background left) and the wooded Garrawy Glen, which is behind a metal fence on the right.
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 22 May 2013
0.12 miles
4
Churchill Estate, Helensburgh
This outlying area of the town consists of housing that was built for Ministry of Defence employees (see Image). From here on, the road is called Winston Road; behind the photographer's position, it is called Golfhill Drive.
The picture was taken from the junction with Fisher Place (foreground right).
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 2 May 2011
0.13 miles
5
Footpath in Garrawy Glen
The path is on the east side of the burn (Image), and here runs parallel to it.
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 8 Oct 2015
0.14 miles
6
Waterfall in Garrawy Glen
This is the waterfall that is marked on the 1:25000 map. On this occasion, the flow was no more than a trickle; the weather had been drier than usual.
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 22 May 2013
0.14 miles
7
The steep eastern side of Garrawy Glen
The glen itself is said to have been a meltwater channel for the glaciers of the Loch Lomond Readvance. In that connection, the first paper cited below mentions the NW—SE trend of drumlins at nearby Townhead Farm.
Ref: "The significance of blocks of shelly till from Townhead Farm, Helensburgh (P MacDonald, pages 41—42 of West Dunbartonshire Naturalist Report No 6; West Dunbartonshire Natural History Society, 1984).
This in turn cites:
Browne M A E, McMillan A A, Hall I H S (1983), "Blocks of marine clay in till near Helensburgh, Strathclyde", Scott. J. Geol., 19, 321—25.
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 24 Apr 2017
0.14 miles
8
Burn in Garrawy Glen
This view downstream is from a Image
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 8 Oct 2015
0.15 miles
9
Rock face in Garrawy Glen
The burn is on the right (east), but the picture is intended to show the rock face on the western side of the glen. The waterfall that is marked on the 1:25000 map is just upstream, but was not well seen from here on account of the dense tree cover.
For a view in the opposite direction, see Image
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 17 Aug 2016
0.15 miles
10
Path in Garrawy Glen
This part of the path is near the edge of the woods; the boundary between the woods and the adjacent field is at the top of the slope on the right.
Image: © Lairich Rig
Taken: 22 May 2013
0.15 miles