One of the smallest districts by area, it contained little else beyond Clydebank, the settlements on its north and west peripheries (Duntocher, Faifley, Hardgate and Old Kilpatrick) and the Kilpatrick Hills rising steeply to their north, with the River Clyde as the southern boundary and the urban area of Glasgow to the south-east, with a tract of farmland to the north-east separating the district from its Dunbarton neighbour Bearsden and Milngavie, while the Dumbarton district was to the west with the division at Bowling.