On the north shore of the River Clyde, this is where the great ships of the past were built - the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were both built in Clydebank. Dunbartonshire (and notice the difference in spelling from the county and the town of DuMbarton) is a mixture of former heavy industry and mass employment and rural, picturesque tourism areas such as Helensburgh, the Rosneath peninsula and beautiful Loch Lomond. The old county (now split into two for Political purposes) is in the shape of a crescent, 1.5 to 14 miles in breadth, and about 38 miles in length. The northernmost part is mainly mountainous with the huge mass of Ben Vorlich - not to be confused with the mountain of the same name just south of Loch Earn. The whole of the western side of Loch Lomond is in Dunbartonshire including the towns and villages of Alexandria (once a major "bleaching" town, Balloch, Luss, Tarbet and Arrochar, so close together and Ardlui. It therefore includes Cameron House (Hotel) and ... < more >