Dumbarton
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Dumbarton Scottish Gaelic Dùn Breatann |
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 57 ′ N , 4 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 19,969 2011 census | ||
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| Post town | DUMBARTON | ||
| ZIP code section | G82 | ||
| prefix | 01389 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | West Dunbartonshire | ||
| British Parliament | West Dunbartonshire | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Dumbarton | ||
Dumbarton ( Gaelic Dùn Bhreatann ) is a town in Scotland with 19,969 inhabitants; it is located about 20 km northwest of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde at the mouth of the River Leven .
On the volcanic basalt rock of 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 capital of West Dunbartonshire County . From the 18th century to around 1960, Dumbarton was a center of shipbuilding .
The place has a train station on the West Highland Line , a railway line that connects Glasgow with Fort William or Oban in the western Highlands .
Downtown area
High-rise residential buildings on the banks of the Leven
Look at Dumbarton on the Clyde , right in the background next to the Dumbarton rock is Ben Lomond .
Personalities
- William Strang (1859–1921), painter and printmaker
- John Madden (1865–1948), football player and coach
- George Harcourt (1868–1947), painter
- Alex Rollo (1926–2004), football player and coach
- Jackie Stewart (* 1939), racing car driver
- David Byrne (* 1952), musician and front man of Talking Heads
