Bowling, West Dunbartonshire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bowling is a village in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland.It lies on the north bank of the Firth of Clyde, between the towns of Clydebank and Dumbarton. It is at one end of the Antonine Wall, and therefore represents the extreme limit of the Roman Empire on the west coast of the island of Great Britain. One play about the history of the Dumbarton area was called The Romans Stopped At Bowling.

1 Transport
2 Bowling Today
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Transport

Bowling is also the location of the western terminus of the Forth and Clyde Canal, opened in 1790.

There is also a railway station. It opened in 1850, when the line ran to Balloch, and was extended to progress to Glasgow in 1858. Today it is on the North Clyde Line. Between 1896 and 1951, the village was also served by a second station, on Caledonian Railway's Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway line. ^[1]

[edit] Bowling Today

There are three pubs, a Post Office shop and a Hairdresser shop. There is a church and there are two parks, a swing Park in front of the bridge and a memorial park behind the bridge.

Each June, they hold a village’s annual gala day which take place on a Saturday. They started from the Bowling Memorial Park with crowning a girl as Queen for a day. Then the start the parade from there to Bowling hall where the gala is held outside. It was slightly disrupted in 2006 as a result of installation of sewage works.