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Bowling, West Dunbartonshire

Bowling
Bowling Harbour.jpg
Bowling Harbour in 2008
Bowling is located in West Dunbartonshire
Bowling
Bowling
Bowling shown within West Dunbartonshire
Population 5,500 
OS grid reference NS445737
Civil parish
Council area
Lieutenancy area
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town GLASGOW
Postcode district G60
Dialling code 01389
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK Parliament
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55°55′55″N 4°29′38″W / 55.932°N 4.494°W / 55.932; -4.494Coordinates: 55°55′55″N 4°29′38″W / 55.932°N 4.494°W / 55.932; -4.494

Bowling (Scots: Bowlin,Scottish Gaelic: Bolan) is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, with a population of 740 (2015).

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.

Bowling is the location of the western terminus of the Forth and Clyde Canal, opened in 1790, and it is the western gateway to the Lowland canals.

In 2008, British Waterways Scotland, in conjunction with Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire, completed a £1.4 million regeneration programme at Bowling Basin to provide additional moorings and improved facilities. At the time there were plans for future use of an area of 140 acres (60 hectares) of land adjacent to Bowling, in conjunction with Clydeport.

In June 2008, Lord Provost Denis Agnew, joined local schoolchildren and community groups to celebrate the completion of a £163,000 project to improve seven kilometres of towpath on the Forth & Clyde Canal from Bowling Harbour to Whitecrook in Clydebank.

In 2007, Bowling welcomed the "Vital Spark", one of only five surviving Clyde puffers, and the first of its kind to sail into Bowling Harbour for more than 40 years. The Forth & Clyde Canal is regarded as the birthplace of the puffers, which had to be small enough to negotiate the Crinan Canal. The archetypal puffer, the Vital Spark, appeared in the "Para Handy" books by Neil Munro and two television series of the same name.


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