Patterton
Road (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Patterton
Classification Road (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 43891
Site Number NS55NW 38
NGR NS 534 580
NGR Description From NS 534 580 to NS 530 575
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43891
- Council East Renfrewshire
- Parish Eastwood (Eastwood)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Eastwood
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS55NW 38 534 580 to 530 575.
A portion of the old Stewarton Road shown on Roy's Military Map 1747-55, replaced by the present road before 1789, will be destroyed by proposed by-pass. It was traced on air photographs and on the ground. It traverses the hillside SW of Patterton Farm as a terrace with boundary banks, and after crossing marshy ground by a causeway turns sharply W to climb the steep ground at NS 630 578, in woodland. Here the road is 4m wide with flanking ditch, enlarged in places as a gully. It appears originally to have continued SW to Polloktown at NS 520 562, but was diverted round Pollok Castle grounds early in the 18th Century.
T C Welsh 1985.
