I made a mistake in my previous post, the result of writing from memory rather than from checked sources. Just for the record...

David Wingate's burn is indeed the Cochno Burn. It flows out of Jaw Reservoir/Cochno Loch. It merges with the Loch Humphrey Burn (also sometimes called the Greenside Burn, as it flows out of Greenside Loch, not actually Loch Humphrey, which is half a mile west of it, towards Dumbarton). Still with me? The Cochno and Humphrey (Humphrey was a medieval landowner) Burns merge about quarter of a mile from the foot of Cochno Road. This is the river that then skirts Parkhall, flows through Dalmuir Golf Course and enters the Clyde at Dalmuir, near the bottom of Mountblow Road.

I double checked "Cochno" with my Clydebank source. He is adamant (I had to try and calm him down!) that he never heard his parents or grandparents call it Cochnae, it was always Cochno.

There was a landed family in the area aclled Mackenzie, one of whom, was educated at Rodean and used to supply us with vegetables from her strictly organic farm, very close to the Cochno Burn.


Can't anyone contact Andy Hunter?