Dumbarton
This article is about the town in Scotland, for other meanings see Dumbarton (disambiguation).
Dumbarton (Gaelic Dùn Bhreatann) is a town in Scotland with a population of 19,969; it lies about 20 km northwest of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde at the mouth of the River Leven.
On the volcanic basalt rock Dumbarton Rock is Dumbarton Castle, which is considered the oldest castle in Scotland. Dumbarton was the capital of the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century and then the capital of the traditional county of Dunbartonshire. Today it is the principal town of the administrative county of West Dunbartonshire. From the 18th century until about 1960, Dumbarton was a centre of shipbuilding.
The village has a railway station on the West Highland Line, a railway line that connects Glasgow with Fort William and Oban in the western Highlands.
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Downtown
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High-rise residential buildings on the banks of the Leven
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View of Dumbarton across the Clyde, to the right in the background next to Dumbarton Rock is Ben Lomond.
Personalities
- William Strang (1859-1921), painter and graphic artist
- John Madden (1865-1948), football player and coach
- George Harcourt (1868-1947), painter
- Dickie Boyle (1869-unknown), footballer.
- Alex Rollo (1926-2004), football player and coach
- Jackie Stewart (* 1939), automobile racing driver
- David Byrne (* 1952), musician and frontman of Talking Heads
