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. It is also the location of the western terminus of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
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. There is also a railway station in Bowling.
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