Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 81
Lambhill Bridge over the Canal on the Possil Road, east and
northwards to Over Possil, thence by a straight line northwards
through Possil Loch to the north boundary of the present Lamb-
hill Cemetery, thence along the north boundaries of Lambhill
Cemetery and the Western Necropolis, following the western and
southern boundaries of the Necropolis to the south-western
corner of St. Kentigern R.C. Cemetery, and following its southern
boundary eastwards for about two hundred and fifty yards, again
southwards to Lochend Farm, again eastwards along the north
boundary of that farm, and again southwards to the point of
commencement on the Canal bank.
I incline, however, strongly to think that the original 26s. 8d.
land of Lambhill (i.e. the two merkland) included not only the
area above described, but also land north of the Canal on which
are situated the Lochburn Iron Works, Lochend Farm before
mentioned — which latterly was acquired by the late Mr. Graham
as an adjunct to his property — and west Possil Loch, in which
undoubtedly Lambhill had the right of fishing, and that it also
included an area on the south of the Canal, the original track
or " nucleus " of which, in the older titles of the Western
Necropolis, is referred to as that " Gote or ditch cast by
Robert Brock and now the Great Canal." This gote or ditch
Robert Brock would in all probability only " cast," or dig, for the
reclamation or improvement of his own land, upon both sides of
it, not for the benefit of a coterminous proprietor. There is also
reasonable ground for supposing that the portion of the property
situated to the west of Possil Road, included the site of the
present Lambhill Foundry and the farm and lands of " Hillend,"
which name has a suggestive resemblance to " Hillhead of
Lambhill," one of the farms referred to in " M r - Ninian Hill
of Lambhill, his Rentall," in 1681, afterwards mentioned. These
suppositions I have endeavoured to make clear in depicting the