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The council area of West Dunbartonshire covers 159 square kilometres (61 sq mi), and has a population of around 90,900. There are 20 Category A listed buildings in the area. There are 20 Category A listed buildings in the area.
Alexandria (Scots: The Vale, [2] Scottish Gaelic: Alexandria [3]) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The town is on the River Leven , three miles (five kilometres) north of Dumbarton and 15 mi (24 km) north-west of Glasgow .
These two neighbourhoods, along with other parts of Clydebank between Great Western Road to the north and the Argyle Line railway to the south, are within West Dunbartonshire's Clydebank Central ward with a combined population of 14,647 in 2011. [8] Aerial view of Great Western Road, with Drumry seen left and Drumchapel right
Map of places in West Dunbartonshire compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.. This List of places in West Dunbartonshire is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, island, lake, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other place of interest in the West Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland.
Public housing became needed to provide "homes fit for heroes" in 1919, [5] [6] then to enable slum clearance.Standards were set to ensure high-quality homes. Aneurin Bevan, a Labour politician, passionately believed that council houses should be provided for all, while the Conservative politician Harold Macmillan saw council housing "as a stepping stone to home ownership". [7]
The council area of East Dunbartonshire covers 175 square kilometres (68 sq mi), and has a population of around 104,700. There are 15 Category A listed buildings in the area. These include several works by the Glasgow-based architect David Hamilton, including the now-derelict Lennox Castle, and two late villas by Alexander Thomson.
West Dunbartonshire was created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, which abolished the regions and districts which had been created in 1975, replacing them with unitary council areas. West Dunbartonshire covered the area of the abolished Clydebank district and the eastern part of Dumbarton district.
Latterly used by East Dunbartonshire council, it was placed on the market in 2012 following council cost-cutting measures and staff redistribution. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In 2016 the building opened as Boclair House Hotel, a hotel, wedding venue, and restaurant, [ 16 ] which has since won several awards. [ 17 ]