Clydebank (district)


Clydebank was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying immediately to the north-west of the regional capital Glasgow.

Local Government

As its name suggests, the district was centred around the industrial town of Clydebank, part of the historic county of Dunbartonshire. In the Local Government Act 1973 leading to its creation, the district's desired composition was described as:
One of the smallest districts by area, it contained little else beyond Clydebank, the settlements on its north and west peripheries and the Kilpatrick Hills rising steeply to their north, with the River Clyde as the southern boundary and the urban area of Glasgow to the south-east, with a tract of farmland to the north-east separating the district from its Dunbarton neighbour Bearsden and Milngavie, while the Dumbarton district was to the west with the division at Bowling.
The Local Government etc. Act 1994 abolished all of the districts and regions. The Clydebank territory was merged with the eastern part of the Dumbarton district to form the West Dunbartonshire unitary council area, headquartered in Dumbarton.