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MILNGAVIE (locally pronounced Millguy)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILNGAVIE (locally pronounced Millguy)  , a police burgh of Dumbartonshire, Scotland . Pop . (1901), 3481 . It lies 6 m . N.N.W. of
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Glasgow by the North
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British railway . The chief
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industries include bleach-fields, dye-
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works, a distillery and a paper mill; but the
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town is largely a residential quarter for Glasgow business men . Close to the town are two reservoirs, Mugdock (62 acres) and Craigmaddie (88 acres), in which is stored the
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water from Loch
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Katrine . Mugdock Castle, ri m . N. of Milngavie, is an old stronghold of the Grahams; in Baldernock parish, about 2 M . E., stands a cromlech, called "the Auld Wives' Lift " (400 ft. high), commanding a
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fine view of the lands between the Forth and Clyde . Dougalston Loch, m . S.E., contains several rare aquatic
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plants .

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