Dumbuck, a village and a mansion in the W of Old Kilpatrick parish, Dumbartonshire. The village stands near the Clyde, 1¾ mile E by S of Dumbarton; and the neighbouring mansion, Dumbuck House, is the property of John Edward Geils, Esq. (b. 1812; suc. 1843), who owns 655 acres in the shire, valued at £1209 per annum. Wooded Dumbuck Hill (547 feet), immediately to the N, is a bold basaltic abutment from the south-western extremity of the Kilpatrick Hills, that stoops precipitously to Dumbarton plain. It commands a magnificent prospect from Tinto to Arran, and from the Grampians to Ayrshire; and so much outtops Dumbarton Castle as easily to command it by artillery, yet was occupied with little effect by Prince Charles Edward's forces in the '45.
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