Old travel Blog photograph of Levengrove Park in Dumbarton, Scotland. Dumbarton is 15 miles from Glasgow. Levengrove Park sits on a portion of the old estate of Levengrove and encompasses the site of Levengrove House. the estate was split up and sold off for development in around 1867. In 1894, the remaining unsold portions of the Levengrove Estate were bought by Messrs. William Denny and John MacMillan of Dumbarton, both eminent local shipbuilders. They arranged for the land to be laid out as a public park for the people of the town and then gifted it back to the Town Council. The park was opened in 1885 in a large ceremony involving a procession of all the town's tradesmen.
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