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LEVENGROVE HOUSE

Also see GLASSWORKS, DUMBARTON

This house appears here as it was built by John Dixon of the family that owned the glassworks. There is no sign of it anymore, but we do know the following: 

This John Wood map dates from 1818. The estate is quite spacious. This house is indicated by a typical icon by the cartographer. This is Leven Grove with the name of John Dixon Esq. of the Dumbarton Glassworks which was directly across the bridge from here. See the map above. Its nearest neighbour, Levenford, would only be built to its immediate south some time later. This area subsequently became tenement housing bound by West Bridgend and Clydeshore Roads. This map also notes that the area to the immediate south is owned by Graham Esq of Gartmore. NLS © as ref below.

The land stretched right down to the Clyde where Levengrove Park now is. Lairich Rig tells us : The lands of Levengrove were originally part of an area named Ferrylands, so called because, before Dumbarton Bridge was built in 1765, the River Leven was crossed by means of a ferry. John Dixon, a Dumbarton merchant, acquired Levengrove in 1805 from Richard Dennistoun of Kelvingrove (in Glasgow). [Lairich Rig]. The ferry point is visble on this map. 

The Dixons built Levengrove House (demolished c.1880), whose former grounds make up much of what is now the park. In 1885, Levengrove Park, 32 acres in area, was gifted to the town of Dumbarton by Dr Peter Denny and John McMillan (son of local shipbuilder Archibald McMillan), the expense to them being £20,000. [Lairich Rig].


LAIRICH RIG in geograph.com: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5535825

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND maps : https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400020

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