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, three miles from Clydebank on the road to Dumbarton.
It is at the north end of the Erskine Bridge and has a small railway station on the North Clyde Line.
It has a public house called the Ettrick where bands may play monthly. There are two other pubs called the Telstar and the Glenn Lusset nearby.
There used to be an annual fete but it died out in the 1990's.
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.)
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