Old travel Blog photograph of Jamestown in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. This Scottish village grew up around the junction of the southern road to Balloch Ferry or Boat, from the Dumbarton to Stirling road, or more accurately track, until it was built up into a military road around 1755. This road down to the Ferry over the Leven is now called Dalvait Road, and indeed has been called that for at least 250 years. References to the land of Dalvait go back to at least the 16th century and its Gaelic derivation from the “ field of boats ” indicate that the area was used by fishermen who fished for salmon in the River Leven at designated places or “ shots ”.
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