Clober, an extensive bleachfield and a mansion in New Kilpatrick parish, Stirlingshire, on Allander Water, ½ mile NNW of Milngavie. The bleachfield turns out annually about 3¼ million yards of cloth. The mansion is a modern edifice, in the old English manor style, after designs by Mr Baird of Glasgow.

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