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River Leven, Dunbartonshire. The River Leven (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Leamhna) is a stretch of water in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, flowing from Loch Lomond in the North to the River Clyde [1] in the South. The river is about 6 miles (10 kilometres) long.
The Vale of Leven is the valley of the River Leven between Loch Lomond in the north and the River Clyde at Dumbarton in the south. To the east are the Kilpatrick Hills.The western hills form a minor off-shoot of the Scottish Highlands, comprising Ben Bouie, Mount Mallow and Carman muir.
Lomond is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors. The ward covers the northern parts of the Vale of Leven closest to Loch Lomond and the rural area east of the loch, including Balloch, Gartocharn, Jamestown, Levenvale, Mill of Haldane, Rosshead and Tullichewan.
Balloch is at the north end of the Vale of Leven, straddling the River Leven itself. It connects to the larger town of Alexandria and to the smaller village of Jamestown, both of which are located to its south. It also borders the Kilpatrick Hills. To the east of the town lies the major local authority housing scheme in the area known as 'The ...
The Lennox (Scottish Gaelic: Leamhnachd, pronounced [ˈʎãũnəxk]) is a region of Scotland centred on The Vale of Leven, including its great loch: Loch Lomond. The Gaelic name of the river is Lìomhann, meaning the smooth stream, which anglicises to Leven (as Gaelic mh is spirantised).
Near Loch Lomond, California, is Ben Lomond which was named by Scot John Burns in 1851. In Canada, there is a Loch Lomond by Thunder Bay, Ontario, as well as a Hamlet named for the loch in southern Alberta. [75] Loch Lomond features as the backdrop for a song sequence in the 1998 Bollywood film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. [76] [77]
Lomond Galleries on North Main Street is a former car factory with an impressive dome and an even more impressive marble entrance hall and staircase. It was originally built in 1906 as the Argyll Motor Works, for Argyll Motors Ltd. A carving above the entrance shows one of the company's cars.
The Lomond Hills (meaning either beacon hills or bare hills), [2] also known outside the locality as the Paps of Fife, [3] [2] are a range of hills in central Scotland. They lie in western central Fife and Perth and Kinross, Scotland. At 522 metres (1,713 ft) West Lomond is the highest point in the county of Fife.