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Riverside Museum
Glasgow's Zaha Hadid-designed transport museum on the Clyde, packed with classic cars, a recreated cobbled street of vintage vehicles, and the tall ship Glenlee moored outside.
7 km · about 15 min drive
Scotland, United Kingdom · Europe
Clydebank is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Old Kilpatrick, 25km from Loch Lomond.
Clydebank is a town located in Scotland, United Kingdom. With a population of 25,620, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Clydebank sits in United Kingdom, where you drive on the left. It's in the Europe/London time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Clydebank to your route.
Clydebank (Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling and Milton beyond) to the west, and the Yoker and Drumchapel areas of the adjacent City of Glasgow immediately to the east.Read more
Depending on the definition of the town's boundaries, the suburban areas of Duntocher, Faifley and Hardgate either surround Clydebank to the north, or are its northern outskirts, with the Kilpatrick Hills beyond.
Historically part of Dunbartonshire and founded as a police burgh on 18 November 1886, Clydebank is part of the registration County of Dumbarton, the Dunbartonshire Crown Lieutenancy area, and the wider urban area of Greater Glasgow.
A native of Clydebank is locally known as a 'Bankie', as distinct from a 'Glaswegian' (Glasgow itself is regarded as a separate place by locals, despite Clydebank being contiguous with the Glasgow urban area), whilst the term forms the nickname for the town's football team Clydebank FC who are known as 'The Bankies'.
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Clydebank is located in Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe. The coordinates are 55.9014 latitude, -4.4057 longitude.
Clydebank has a population of approximately 25,620 people, making it a town in United Kingdom.
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museum
Glasgow's Zaha Hadid-designed transport museum on the Clyde, packed with classic cars, a recreated cobbled street of vintage vehicles, and the tall ship Glenlee moored outside.
7 km · about 15 min drive
cafe
A popular stopping point on the A82 beside Loch Lomond, where road trippers heading to the Scottish Highlands pause to take in one of Scotland's most beautiful lochs.
22 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
Britain's largest freshwater lake by surface area, where Highland mountains meet Lowland shores in a landscape immortalised in song.
25 km · about 30 min drive
castle
One of Scotland's largest and most important castles, sitting atop Castle Hill and closely associated with Scottish independence.
38 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
A small Trossachs loch under Ben A'an, whose short steep path yields one of Scotland's best effort-to-view ratios.
38 km · about 45 min drive
castle
A well-preserved 14th-century courtyard castle near Stirling, filmed for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Game of Thrones and Outlander.
39 km · about 45 min drive
film location
The 14th-century keep is Castle Anthrax in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Castle Leoch in Outlander and Winterfell in the GoT pilot.
39 km · about 45 min drive
film location
The Victorian tower commemorating William Wallace overlooks the Stirling battlefield central to Braveheart's story; the film itself shot largely in Ireland.
40 km · about 45 min drive
8 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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