Mains House, a mansion in New Kilpatrick parish, Dumbartonshire, 1¼ mile WNW of Milngavie. Its owner, Archibald Campbell Douglas, Esq. (b. 1841; suc. 1857), holds 1581 acres in Dumbarton and Stirling shires, valued at £2226 per annum, his ancestors having possessed the estate since 1373.—Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1867.

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