HARDGATE, a village, in that part of the parish of
Old-Kilpatrick which formed the quoad sacra parish
of Duntocher, county of Dumbarton, 2 miles (E.)
from Old Kilpatrick; containing 467 inhabitants. This
is one of numerous thriving villages which have sprung
up in this great manufacturing district within the present
century. It arose from the erection of the mill here, in
1831, for spinning and weaving cotton, by Mr. Dunn, a
large proprietor of land in this quarter, and the enterprising
founder of several other mills and works in the
vicinity. The villages of Hardgate, Duntocher, Faifley,
and Milton, in which Mr. Dunn has considerable establishments,
are all within less than a mile of each other,
and border oa the Firth of Clyde, which flows on the
south of the parish.