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©william craig
Dist:0.3km<br/>The photograph was taken from [[2089231]].
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.3km<br/>For the origins of the road's name, see [[2089251]]. Knocknairshill Reservoir can be seen on the right: [[71192]] / [[1411397]] / [[2089238]]. Visible directly beyond the far end of the road are the slopes of Creachan Hill ([[NS3389]]), with the taller Ben Lomond ([[NN3602]]) behind.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.3km<br/>For a view of the trig point in context, see [[2023063]]. Its flush bracket number is S4982. The large town of Greenock is visible on the near shore of the Clyde. Out in the firth, the Rosneath Peninsula can be seen directly behind the trig point, with Loch Long to its left, and the Gare Loch to the right.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.3km<br/>The mound in the middle distance is a high point of the moor. A trig point can be seen there; for a closer look, see [[2023086]]. The River Clyde is visible in the background. On the far side of the river, and extending from the left-hand edge of the image to behind the trig point, the slopes above the shore-side town of Helenburgh resemble a single low wide hill; behind its highest point, Glen Luss forms a gap in the mountains; the distant Cobbler ([[NN2505]]) and Ben Ime ([[NN2508]]) stand in the gap.
©Lairich Rig
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©John Ferguson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The ground to the west is rougher underfoot, not only here, but along the full length of the fence and wall. For background details on the left, see [[2023063]]. On the right, Ardmore Point ([[NS3178]]) can be seen jutting out from the far shore of the Clyde. Two hills, close together, can be seen behind it: Ben Bowie ([[NS3382]]), with the partially-afforested Killoeter ([[NS3481]]) to its right.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.4km<br/>The photograph was taken from the point where this road leaves [[2089231]]. Not far ahead, a short track branches off southwards from Dougliehill Road, leading towards [[2089238]], but the road itself continues on a more or less eastward course (see [[71202]] and [[840854]]) across the moor, towards the houses and industrial estates above Port Glasgow.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.4km<br/>The valley of the Devol Burn is visible in the background; the burn flows eastwards there, but the photograph was taken at a point where the burn is, by means of the foreground wall, sharply diverted to the south, where it passes through a sluice gate: [[2089517]]. Although the burn is redirected here, part of its flow is allowed to continue eastwards from this point, as controlled by the valve (another contributor's photograph, taken elsewhere, shows the top of what is clearly the same kind of valve: [[2077333]]). The valve is of cast iron, and can be dated by the lettering on its near side. The lighting conditions prevailing at the time mean that this writing is not evident in the photo, but it reads as follows: "LAIDLAW AND SON ENGINEERS GLASGOW 1903." According to http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/286385/details/glasgow city corporation waterworks 1885 aqueduct blane 1885 valve house/ (at Canmore), R. Laidlaw and Son were based at the Alliance Foundry, Broomhill, Glasgow, from 1853-1923.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.4km<br/>In this photograph, the two reservoirs named in the title are the nearer and the further body of water, respectively. The ladder of a [[2089517]] provided the elevated viewpoint. In front of the nearer reservoir, [[2089231]] crosses the field of view.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.5km<br/>This photograph provides a closer view of the gate that is shown in [[2089517]]; see that item for further details. The other sluice gate that is mentioned in that item can be seen in the background of the present photograph, on the right.
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.5km<br/>This photograph shows one of a pair of sluice gates located on the course of the Devol Burn. Just beyond the left-hand side of the sluice, another part of the burn can be seen joining this one from the right. The other sluice gate is located further up that part of the burn; compare [[2089519]]. The foreground section of the burn had itself been diverted here by a wall that is located just 60m to the NNW, and which is shown in [[2089523]]. See [[2089231]] for a view along the section of road that can be seen in the background. [The first-edition OS map (c.1860) refers to the burn by its present name, Devol Burn, but earlier maps show some variation in the name. For example, John Ainslie's 1796 map shows the lower part of its course, the present-day [[1661703]], as "Divels Glen", while Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1740s-50s) shows "Devils Glen".]
©Lairich Rig
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the B788 Auchmountain Road above Gibbshill.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.5km<br/>River Clyde.
©wfmillar
Dist:0.5km<br/>The small car parking area on the right-hand side of [[2089745]] is signposted as a viewpoint. For some of the views from there, see [[1421545]] and [[1421514]].
©Lairich Rig

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