Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Duntocher

Duntocher, small manufacturing town, Old Kilpatrick par., Dumbartonshire, on Dalmuir Burn, 9 miles NW. of Glasgow, pop. 1572; P.O.; has cotton-mills, a manufactory of agricultural implements, lime-works, coal-mines, and quarries. Duntocher has an ancient bridge, believed to be Roman, and adjoins a hill on which many Roman relics have been found.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "small manufacturing town"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Old Kilpatrick ScoP       Dunbartonshire ScoCnty
Place: Duntocher

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