Glenarbuck, a ravine in Old Kilpatrick parish, Dumbartonshire, running down the face of the Kilpatrick Hills from Craigarestie (1166 feet) 1 ½ mile southward to the Clyde in the eastern vicinity of Bowling Bay. It looks like a broad deep rent in the hills, formed by the vertical stroke of an earthquake. Glenarbuck House stands on a slope between its foot and the Clyde, and is a fine mansion, embosomed in wood.—Ord. Sur., sh. 30,1866.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)