2013

NS3875 : The former site of Dalreoch Toll

taken 11 years ago, near to Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

The former site of Dalreoch Toll
The former site of Dalreoch Toll
The picture shows the junction of Cardross Road / Glasgow Road (in the foreground) and Renton Road (background, right). The building at the centre of the picture is more or less on the site of Dalreoch Toll. The tollhouse was still standing at the start of the twentieth century, although there had been no tolls on public roads since 1883 [see page 87 of I M M MacPhail's "Dumbarton through the Centuries" (1972)].

The tollhouse is the squat building that can be seen in the foreground of Alexander Kellock Brown's painting "Dumbarton in Glassmaking Days", shown at LinkExternal link (at ArtUK). It can also been seen in two very similar paintings by I Clark: see LinkExternal link (also at ArtUK).

These paintings also show the three cones of the glassworks (see NS3975 : The Artizan Bridge), NS3975 : Dumbarton Bridge, and NS3974 : Dumbarton Rock.

Examination of the 25-inch OS map published in 1919 shows tramlines passing Dalreoch Toll (the tollhouse was then still standing). If the tramlines were still present today, they would be seen entering this photograph where the cars are stopped, and they would leave the picture at the lower right corner.

Followed north from here, the line passed NS3876 : Dalreoch Quarry, already disused by then, on the way to Renton. Followed in the opposite direction, the line passed through the West Bridgend area of Dumbarton, crossed NS3975 : Dumbarton Bridge, and then followed the town's High Street. In the vicinity of NS3975 : Dumbarton Riverside Parish Church, the line divided, with one branch continuing along NS3975 : Castle Street, Dumbarton (the lines visible in that picture are unrelated to the trams), and the other turning off to follow Church Street (NS3975 : Church Street, Dumbarton) and then Strathleven Place. Further information about these routes, and about the history of trams in this area, can be found in the booklet "Dumbarton's Trams and Buses" (A W Brotchie and R L Grieves, 1985).

Compare NS4076 : Barloan Toll Roundabout, which had also been the site of one of the burgh's tollhouses, and which was also the end-point of one of the town's tramlines.

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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 18 February, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 5 March, 2013
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3898 7576 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.8689N 4:34.8079W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3901 7571
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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