Inchbelly, a hamlet on the mutual border of Stirlingshire and Dumbartonshire, on the river Kelvin, adjacent to the Forth and Clyde Canal, 1¼ mile ENE of Kirkintilloch. It has a bridge over the Kelvin, on the road from Glasgow to Falkirk, and, together with Inchbreck, Inchterf, Inchwood, and Netherinch in its neighbourhood, it owes the ' inch ' of its name to quondam insulation by the waters which once occupied the strath now traversed by the Forth and Clyde Canal.—Ord. Sur, sh. 31, 1867.

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