Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Murroch Burn

Murroch Burn, a rivulet of Dumbarton parish, Dumbartonshire, rising on Knockshanoch, adjacent to Dumbarton Muir, at an altitude of 870 feet above sea-level, and running 43/8 miles south-westward, along a glen containing abundant supplies of limestone, till it falls into the river Leven, 9 furlongs N of Dumbarton town.—Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.


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

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Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Dumbarton ScoP       Dunbartonshire ScoCnty

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