Finding a hotel in West Dunbartonshire
Covers an area of 68 square miles (177 sq. Km) and has a population of around 97,000. Bordering onto Argyll and Bute, Stirling, East Dunbartonshire, the City of Glasgow, and Renfrewshire, it incorporates most of the old Dumbarton District Council and Clydebank District Council areas (the authority was originally called Dumbarton and Clydebank before the name was changed to West Dunbartonshire). West Dunbartonshire is administered from Dumbarton, although Clydebank is the largest town. Note that the town is spelt Dumbarton but the region and former county are known as Dunbartonshire. This anomaly in the spelling originates occurred when the names were translated into English from the Gaelic Dùn Breatainn (Dumbarton) and Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn (Dunbartonshire). The administrative centre is Dumbarton. GeographyThe area is essentially composed of three parts: the towns of Dumbarton and Clydebank and the Vale of Leven district. The area consists of the Leven valley and coastal land of the Firth of Clyde rising toward the upland plateau of the Kilpatrick Hills. IndustryWhisky distilling, light manufacturing and sheep rearing. HistoryWest Dunbartonshire once formed the centre of the ancient Celtic Kingdom of Strathclyde. As an industrial area of importance, the area was targeted by Germans and bombed in World War II. Places of interest
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