Old Kilpatrick

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Old Kilpatrick is a village in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland at grid reference NS463729.

It is situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, on the outskirts of Clydebank on the road to Dumbarton. It tends to act as a dormitory village for middle class commuters with jobs in Glasgow.

It is at the north end of the Erskine Bridge and has a small railway station on the North Clyde Line.

Its name means "the cell of Patrick", and there is a myth that it was the birthplace of Saint Patrick.

According to Sheppard Frere's "Britannia -- A History of Roman Britain", the western end of Antonine's Wall was at Old Kilpatrick. (The eastern end, 59 km distant was at Bridgeness on the Forth.)