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Leven Valley Enterprise Centre, Castlehill Road, DUMBARTON, G82 5BN

Seen across Castlehill Road.

The enterprise centre has various units available for rental. It is a former school annex which was converted to commercial use about 1994.

Bar on Castlehill Road. A sign outside the entrance to the Saloon bar reads: NO HORSES TO BE LEFT UNTIED Next door is the New Dragon Inn - a Chinese and Thai takeaway.

[Update: by mid-2022, the outside of the building had been redecorated, and this metalwork had been removed. Among the new decor was a "No Horses to be Left Untied" sign beside the saloon door.] See Image for context. The setting is the west side of Castlehill Road, in front of a building that had been occupied for several decades by a Chinese takeaway with "Dragon" in its name; note the dragons in the lower half of the picture. The Latin motto at the top of the ironwork is "Virtute Tutus" ("by virtue secure" or equivalent).

They are shown from the other side of Castlehill Road. Right of centre, against the wall, is a piece of metalwork, shown in detail in Image; it features carved dragons. Although the name of the takeaway also contains the word "Dragon", I am told that the metalwork itself is earlier, and was present when the premises were called "The Keep" (which is the name that is obscured by the bus stop sign). [Update: By mid-2022, the outside of the building looked very different, and, amongst other changes, the metalwork had been removed.]

The stone shown here is located at the eastern entrance of the Image; see that photograph for a view of the stone in context. For an explanation of "the Mony", see the main description of the park: Image

It only takes a few seconds to climb this knoll, shown from a distance in Image, which gives the Castlehill area of Dumbarton its name. Part of that area of housing is in the right background.

This is a view of the eastern entrance of the park. See Image for the main description, and for another view of the park. For a closer look at the stone on the right, see Image

This Castle Hill is a small knoll, shown from a distance in Image, that gives the Castlehill area of Dumbarton its name. It stands in the Image Part of Image can be seen indistinctly in the distance. As noted there, the school had only recently relocated from that site.

See Image for the opposite view, down the slope. Someone pointed out to me in a conversation about half an hour later that there is a causeway-like path down this side (which is what my picture was intended to capture). See the comments at https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Mains-of-Cardross-and-Castle-Hill#castle-hill for further discussion; in brief, there is no physical evidence that there was ever a building on this knoll, but the presence of what looks like a path on this side had been noted about a century ago.