Bearsden & District

Finnich Toll to Balloch

Photographs of a bike ride from Finnich Toll

across Cameron Muir to Balloch Country Park.

Most of the route is along the John Muir Way.

Views of the Luss Hills, Ben Lomond

and the Campsie Fells.

Campsie Fells

from Finnich Toll

Finnich Toll Refers to the former Toll House

where travellers paid a fee or toll for use of the road

Ben Lomond

from John Muir Way

across Cameron Muir

Cattle drovers used the track over Cameron Muir

on their way to the market, or tryst, at Falkirk

in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Signpost on John Muir Way

Wester Cameron Farm

from John Muir Way

Stronend in the Fintry Hills

from John Muir Way

Luss Hills

from John Muir Way

Balloch Castle

Loch Lomond

from Balloch Castle Country Park

Campsie Fells

beyond Aucheneck House

from John Muir Way

Aucheneck House

An imposing Scottish baronial mansion.

James MacNair,

a land improver and agriculturalist,

purchased the Aucheneck estate in 1828.

As well as improving the estate itself,

he erected this mansion house.

The Aucheneck estate was later purchased

from Mr MacNair's trustees by John Wilson,

who built a large addition to the house.

A Category "C" listed building