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Leven Street, DUMBARTON, G82 1QG

With Denny Road in the background. Viewed from Glasgow Road.

This street is part of the Castle Quay housing development. The name Denny Crescent commemorates the former presence here of the northern part of Denny's shipyard. At a still earlier period, and as shown on the first-edition OS map (surveyed in 1860), this northern part had previously been the site of the Victoria Yard (of Denny & Rankin): see Image (For the company Denny & Rankin, see the comments at http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Dumbarton-Cemetery#shipbuilding-and-other-industries on Peter Denny of Castlegreen and on Daniel Rankin. For the place-name Castlegreen, see comments on Image)

Housing on a former industrial site off Castle Road.

Looking towards Castle Road and Dumbarton Rock and castle beyond.

Victoria Street is to the right.

Scottish Referendum posters and a more official sign on Castle Road, Dumbarton.

Looking NE up Victoria Street. Whisky warehouses no longer exist with new development on left and nothing (yet) on the right.

Leading to Dumbarton Rock and Dumbarton Castle.

The picture was taken from near the junction with Victoria Street, which appears in the foreground. The road receding from the photographer's position is Castlegreen Street. As shown, for example, on the first-edition OS map (surveyed in 1860), the area known as Castle Green was just to the north of nearby Dumbarton Rock. The area was long known as Castle Green, in reference to Dumbarton Castle – http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Dumbarton-Rock-and-Castle – but by 1860, there was a house called Castle Green there, at Image; the house is depicted on the first-edition OS map (the western half of the stand and facilities of the stadium of Image are at about the same spot). The house was the seat of a branch of the Denny family: see Image Peter Denny of Castlegreen was Provost of Dumbarton from 1834-44, and from 1848-51. The name Castle Green is considerably older; for example, it is found in an Act of Parliament, passed on the 5th of August, 1704, entitled "Act of dissolution of the feu duties of Bute and other rents allocated to the keeping of the castle of Dumbarton and the constabulary thereof". The act mentions the "ferme and watchmail of Kilpatrick, mains and feu-duties of Cardross, with the castle green". (As an aside, the watchmeal of Kilpatrick – as the term is usually spelled – was an ancient tax originally levied to fund measures to ward off wolves: see Image for references to further information).