Silverton, Dumbarton
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Silverton is a large housing scheme in Dumbarton East Scotland
, located between Dumbarton Rock and Dumbuck Hill and Round Riding Road to the north. It derives its name from the farm upon which it is now located.
It is predominantly a residential area, with both public and private housing stock. Due to its relatively flat geography the public sector housing was often let to the elderly and infirm of Dumbarton.
Dumbarton Academy secondary school is situated in Silverton, as is the Brock Bowling Club
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There are three newsagent Shops (one of them has a post office), and a Fish & Chip and Pizzeria take-away shop. There is also a swing park in an area known as the Dam.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, located between Dumbarton Rock and Dumbuck Hill and Round Riding Road to the north. It derives its name from the farm upon which it is now located.
It is predominantly a residential area, with both public and private housing stock. Due to its relatively flat geography the public sector housing was often let to the elderly and infirm of Dumbarton.
Dumbarton Academy secondary school is situated in Silverton, as is the Brock Bowling Club
Brock Bowling Club
-History:The club was founded in 1948 . as the Blackburn Welfare Bowling Club by fitters employed by the local Blackburn Aircraft Factory, which in the post war years adapted to the provision of pre-fabricated housing units...
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There are three newsagent Shops (one of them has a post office), and a Fish & Chip and Pizzeria take-away shop. There is also a swing park in an area known as the Dam.