Drumry is a

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in the Scottish town of Clydebank,

West Dunbartonshire West Dunbartonshire ( sco, Wast Dunbairtonshire; gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar, ) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. The area lies to the west of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's commuter to ...

, split into North and South Drumry by its main thoroughfare, Drumry Road. Some of the housing, including five

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s, was refurbished in the early 2010s. North Drumry is the location of one of Clydebank's two current secondary schools, St Peter the Apostle High School, built in 2009 on the site of another school, St Columba's High. Another school a short distance to the south, Braidfield High School dating from the 1950s, was demolished in 2007; the site lay unused for some years before a housing development was constructed in 2019. Play park off Kirkoswald Drive (geograph 5350171)

Play park off Kirkoswald Drive (geograph 5350171)

To the south-east, bounded by the

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railway, Great Western Road ( A82) and the

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, is the housing estate of Linnvale, constructed in 1950s.Neighbourhoods: Drumry and Linnvale
The Clydebank Story (archived version, retrieved 2007) Drumry and Linnvale are served by Drumry railway station on the North Clyde Line which runs between

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and

Dumbarton Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990. Dumbarton was the ca ...

. A

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is located next to the station on the Drumry side. These two neighbourhoods, along with other parts of Clydebank between Great Western Road to the north and the

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railway to the south, are within West Dunbartonshire's ''Clydebank Central'' ward with a combined population of 14,647 in 2011. Great Western Road from the air (geograph 5599799)

Great Western Road from the air (geograph 5599799)

The central area of Clydebank (including a shopping centre and retail park) is on the other side of the railway lines to the south-west; the large

housing estate of

Drumchapel Drumchapel ( gd, Druim a' Chapaill), known locally as 'The Drum', is a district in the north-west of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It borders Bearsden (in East Dunbartonshire) to the north-east and Drumry (part of Clydebank, in West Dunbarton ...

is located on the other (eastern) side of Great Western Road, featuring another retail park. In 2003, 'Drumry' was named the second most deprived area in Scotland by the Scottish Executive, however this referred to the ''Drumry'' ward of Glasgow City Council's area, i.e. the western part of Drumchapel rather than the Clydebank neighbourhood. The physical division between the communities has historically been a 'hot spot' for territorial gang violence.Clydebank youth permanently disfigured in territory gang fight
Evening Times, 4 August 2016

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* New Kilpatrick Clydebank Populated places in West Dunbartonshire {{WestDunbartonshire-geo-stub