page_title: Milton Island
section_title: Milton Island
hierarchical_section_title: Milton Island / Milton Island
caption_attribution_description: English: Milton Island. The photograph was taken from the area that is known as Milton Island, although its appearance at low tide, as shown here, is as a number of separate rounded grassy areas, such as the one visible in the foreground. In Roy's Military Survey (1740s-50s), it is called Green Inch, a name that does seem quite appropriate. For the various structures that are visible in the background, see 1805668.
context_page_description: Milton Island or Green Inch was an island in the Clyde's estuarine waters close to the old ford across the river at Dumbuck near Dumbarton. The island was once part of the tidal ford supposedly built by the Romans. Industrial activity has changed the river currents and the island has become substantially reduced in size and split into islets.
context_section_description: Lying between Dumbarton and Dunglass Castle below Dumbuck Hill the island is recorded as 'Green Inch' on William Roy's map of 1747-55. By 1821 the island is recorded as Millton Island, lying just off shore from the village of that name.
  The Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1860 records Milton Island as "An Island in the foreshore of the Clyde at Milton from which it is named. It is never covered at High Water above the H.W.M. [High Water Mark] shewn.".
  The old Esso terminal lying just upstream of Milton Island has had a significant effect on the patterns of erosion and deposition to the extent that the island is no longer a single island but of 2018 exists as three small grassy islets that lie within the larger boundary of the old island.
  The Dumbuck Perch (NS 4132 7385) stands nearby as a slightly elevated area strewn with stones.
caption: view from Milton Island
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