Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dalsholm or Dawsholm

Dalsholm or Dawsholm, a village in New Kilpatrick parish, SE Dumbartonshire, on the right bank of the Kelvin, 4¾ miles NW of Glasgow. It has a paper-mill and beautiful environs; and near it is an ancient artificial mound, the Courthill, supposed to have been a seat of feudal courts of justice.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: New Kilpatrick Parish       Dunbartonshire County
Place names: DALSHOLM     |     DALSHOLM OR DAWSHOLM     |     DAWSHOLM
Place: Dawsholm

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