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Loch Lomond. Loch Lomond (/ˈlɒxˈloʊmənd/; Scottish Gaelic Loch Laomainn) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault.

Loch Lomond

It is the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by surface area.[1] The loch contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh-water island in the British Isles.[2] Loch Lomond is a popular leisure destination and is featured in song. Geography[edit] Loch Lomond is a freshwater loch lying on the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands. It is 39 kilometres (24 mi) long and between 1.21 kilometres (0.75 mi) and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide. It has an average depth of about 37 metres (121 ft), and a maximum depth of about 190 metres (620 ft). Traditionally a boundary between Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire, Loch Lomond is currently split between the council areas of Stirling, Argyll and Bute, and West Dunbartonshire.

Islands[edit] English travel writer, H.V. Old Kilpatrick. Coordinates: Old Kilpatrick (Scots: Auld Kilpaitrick, Scottish Gaelic: Cille Phàdraig meaning "Patrick's church", Latin: Clotagenium meaning "Clyde-mouth") is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Old Kilpatrick

Hardgate. Hardgate is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Hardgate

Hardgate has probably been settled since neolithic times with a burial site at Knappers Farm, a cup and ring marked stone and a Burial chamber near Cochno Loch providing evidence of this.[1] Although it is a far older settlement, it is administratively part of nearby Clydebank along with the neighbouring village of Duntocher and now lies in the West Dunbartonshire local authority area. The village expanded due to house building by Clydebank town council after World War II, and later by the Wimpey firm in the early 1970s on what had been green belt land. Dumbarton Castle. Dumbarton Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Breatainn, pronounced [d̪̊unˈb̊ɾʲɛhd̪̊ɪɲ]) has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Great Britain.

Dumbarton Castle

It overlooks the Scottish town of Dumbarton, and sits on a plug of volcanic basalt known as Dumbarton Rock which is 240 feet (73 m) high. History[edit] Iron Age[edit] At least as far back as the Iron Age, this has been the site of a strategically important settlement. Its early residents were known to have traded with the Romans.

Early Medieval Era[edit] Inchmurrin. Inchmurrin (Scottish Gaelic: Innis Mheadhran) is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland.

Inchmurrin

It is the largest fresh water island in the British Isles.[5] Geography and geology[edit] View of Inchmurrin Inchmurrin is the largest and most southerly of the islands in Loch Lomond. It reaches a height of 89 metres (292 ft) towards the north and is largely wooded.[6] There is an excellent view of the north end of the loch.[7] West Dunbartonshire. The area is essentially composed of three parts: the towns of Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven district.

West Dunbartonshire

West Dunbartonshire is administered from Dumbarton, although Clydebank is the largest town. Governance and politics[edit] The council is run by 22 councillors elected from 6 wards.[2] All Scottish local authorities were last elected in 2012; in West Dunbartonshire, the following parties were elected:[3] Renton, West Dunbartonshire. Coordinates: Renton (Scottish Gaelic: An Reantan; Scots: The Renton) is a small village in central Scotland.

Renton, West Dunbartonshire

In the 2001 National Census it had a population of 2,138. Kilpatrick Hills. Duncolm in the heart of the Kilpatrick Hills with Lily Loch at its foot View from Cochno Hill over Greenside Reservoir to The Slacks Fynloch Hill.

Kilpatrick Hills

Erskine Bridge. The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland.[2] The bridge connects West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire and can be used by all types of motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.

Erskine Bridge

The bridge is also known as the A898 which is its official road name.[3] On completion the bridge replaced the Erskine to Old Kilpatrick ferry service.[4] Construction[edit] View of the underside of the bridge. Bonhill. Bonhill (B'nill in Scots and Both an Uillt in Gaelic) is a town in the Vale of Leven area of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Bonhill

It is sited on the Eastern bank of the River Leven, on the opposite bank from the larger town of Alexandria.[1] History[edit] The area is mentioned in a charter of 1225 giving the monks from Paisley Abbey fishing rights on the east bank of the River Leven at the Linbrane pool.[2][3] Bonhill Parish was noted in a charter of 1270 as “the parish of Buthehille”, and the name became Bonyle about 1550, with the variants Bonuil and Bonill appearing before Bonhill was adopted by 1700.

Overtoun House. Overtoun House is a 19th-century country house and estate in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on a hill overlooking the River Clyde, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the village of Milton, and 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the town of Dumbarton. The house, an example of Scottish Baronial architecture, was built in the 1860s, and was gifted to the people of Dumbarton in 1938. It was subsequently a maternity hospital, and now houses a Christian centre. The house is protected as a category A listed building,[1] while the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.[2] Overtoun Bridge, an arched approach bridge over the Overtoun Burn, has gained media attention because of the unusually large number of dogs that have reportedly leaped to their deaths there over a number of decades.[3] Estate history[edit] White family[edit] Aberfoyle, Stirling. Coordinates: The town is situated on the River Forth at the base of Craigmore (420 metres high).

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land. Loch Ard, about two miles (3 km) west of Aberfoyle, lies 40 metres above the sea.

It is three miles (5 km) long (including the narrows at the east end) and one mile (1½ km) broad. Milton, West Dunbartonshire. Milton (historically Milton of Colquhoun) is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies about 1 mile east of Dumbarton, on the A82 Glasgow-Loch Lomond road and below the Overtoun Bridge. It previously had a primary school. The first school was in what is now quite an old building on the road to Overtoun. Old Red Sandstone. The Old Red Sandstone is a British lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) to which stratigraphers accord supergroup status[3] and which is of considerable importance to early paleontology. For convenience the short version of the term, ORS is often used in literature on the subject. The term was coined to distinguish the sequence from the younger New Red Sandstone which also occurs widely throughout Britain.

Sedimentology[edit] The familiar red colour of these rocks arises from the presence of iron oxide but not all the Old Red Sandstone is red or sandstone — the sequence also includes conglomerates, mudstones, siltstones and thin limestones and colours can range from grey and green through red to purple. Scotland. Scottish Highlands. The Scottish Highlands, known locally simply as the Highlands (Scottish Gaelic: A' Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels"; Scots: the Hielands) are a historic region of Scotland. The region became culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east.

Isle of Arran. Isle of Man. Torrinch. Torrinch or Inchtore (Scottish Gaelic: Torr-Innis) is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland. Fyvie Castle. Inchcailloch. Scottish Lowlands. Cowal. Hebrides. Inner Hebrides. The Minch. Outer Hebrides. Galloway. Firth of Clyde. Duntocher. Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. Crieff. Bowling, West Dunbartonshire. Creinch. Clydebank. Isle of Bute. Eilean Donan. Highland Boundary Fault. Scottish Highlands. Lochranza. Inchmurrin. Shetland. Helensburgh. Orkney. Stonehaven. West Dunbartonshire. River Leven, Dunbartonshire. Comrie. Dalmuir. Balloch, West Dunbartonshire. Faifley. Vale of Leven. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. Dumbarton.