B832
B832 | |||||||
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From: | Duchlage (NS352871) | ||||||
To: | Crosskeys Roundabout, Dumfin (NS338851) | ||||||
Distance: | 1.7 miles (2.7 km) | ||||||
Meets: | A82, A818 | ||||||
Old route now: | A818 | ||||||
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Route outline (key) | |||||||
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The B832 forms part of the northern access to Helensburgh from the A82 along Loch Lomond. The longer southern part of the original B832 was renumbered (along with the whole of the B831) on 7 January 2005 to become the A818 as its standard had already been improved, and had become an attractive alternative to the other signed route via the A814 and Dumbarton town centre, and may have been more heavily used. Today, just over a mile and a half of the route originally classified survives. This remaining part is quite winding and only just double track.
Starting on the A82, at a simple T-junction somewhat oddly signed with just the route number and no destinations, the road starts off promisingly, running between white metal-railing fences. However as it reaches the first bend the road narrows and the surface deteriorates, partly owing to the spread of mud from the adjoining farm. The road now snakes through trees, with a number of houses hidden behind the foliage, and starts climbing. Even the bits of road that look straight on the map seem to meander along between the hedges, and soon the trees thin out as it reaches the upper fields of rough grazing.
Still climbing, the road does now straighten out, and trees return in areas of woodland on either side of the road. Then the summit is crossed and the road starts to descend, albeit not for long. Just past the summit the "reduce speed now" sign for the roundabout ahead appears, and as it drops down, the road kinks slightly to the left to reveal the junction at Crosskeys which marks the present end of the B832. To the left, the A818 heads back along the former B831 to the A82; to the right a minor road runs up Glen Fruin, following the valley floor below the new A817 high above; and the route ahead is what was originally the B832 (now part of the A818) continuing on to Helensburgh.