2010

NS3776 : Hawthornhill Road

taken 13 years ago, near to Renton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

This is 1 of 2 images, with title Hawthornhill Road in this square
Hawthornhill Road
Hawthornhill Road
This is the western end of the road. Not far ahead, where a car is parked beside an evergreen tree, NS3776 : Maple Avenue, Hawthornhill leads off to the right. The photograph was taken from the top of a path that is shown, between two hedges, in NS3775 : Path to Dalmoak.

This end of the road would fall within the area that is called Hawthornhill, but its other end is located in Castlehill. See NS3876 : Hawthornhill Road, Castlehill and NS3876 : Hawthornhill Road, Castlehill.

The point from which the present photograph was taken is close to NS3776 : The former site of Hawthornhill Farm; that farm is shown on the first-edition OS map (surveyed in 1860); it was located at NS37677607. 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 ( Link ) later occupied the site of Clarkhill; Havoc was at the shore ( Link ), and its name is still associated with that area; Castlehill is the name of an area of Dumbarton ( Link ); and Ardochbeg is now a ruin ( Link ).

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 NS2587 : The ruins of Letrualt 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.

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NS3776, 67 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 24 December, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 31 December, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3759 7615 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:57.0509N 4:36.1560W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3766 7611
View Direction
West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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