English: Remains of Old Wharf at Bowling These posts are the remnants of a wharf (sometimes also referred to as Bowling Pier). Even in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when the first OS 25-inch-to-the-mile map of this area was made, this site was annotated as the Old Wharf, in contrast to 1968303, which was located adjacent to the present-day railway station at Bowling. The New Wharf opened in around 1850 (see the last-cited link); the Old Wharf therefore dates from an even earlier period.

Close to the near end of the ruins there is a mound with two posts on top; this structure is shown in relation to the wharf in the following, more inclusive, view of the same area: 1496336.

As for the background, a white upright pillar (1423309) can be seen on the right-hand side, in front of the 1793759. On the left-hand side, an obelisk is visible on a small promontory: 1941631.

It is probably that the place-name Bowling was, in its original form, a description of the shoreline; John Bruce's "History of the Parish of West or Old Kilpatrick" (published in 1893; facsimile re-published in 1995) observes: "The village of Bowling, or, as it was known many years ago, Bowling Bay, appears last century in the parish registers as the Bowland of Spittal, evidently deriving its appellation from the curve of the bay, which has been greatly and repeatedly altered since the formation of the canal in 1790 down to the present day". As evidence, the same work cites a 1747 entry from the parish register of births that includes the form Bowland; it also notes that the full form of the name, Bowland of Spittal, appears in an entry from 1752.

For the element "Spittal", see 1423575; in this case, the specific Spittal is evidently the one described, in the work just cited, as having been near the present-day Glenarbuck House (for which, see the 1:25000 map): "the original designation of the Glenarbuck lands was the Spittal of Dunnerbuck. The remains of the farm-house known as the Spittal may still be seen behind the coach-house".