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A vision of Britain through time
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Jamestown, a small town in Bonhill parish, Dumbartonshire, on the left bank of the river Leven, 6½ furlongs N of Bonhill town. It shares in the busy industry of the Vale of Leven, and has a post office, a station on the Forth and Clyde Junction section of the North British, a quoad sacra parochial church, and a public school. The church, erected in 1869 at a cost of £3000, in the Early English style, after designs by Clark & Bell of Glasgow, has a nave and aisles, 800 sittings, a spire 130 feet high, and a large W window, with mullions and elaborate tracery. The quoad sacra parish, constituted in 1873, is in the presbytery of Dumbarton and synod of Glasgow and Ayr; its minister's stipend is £330. Pop. of town (1861) 869, (1871) 1163, (1881) 2171; of q. s. parish (1881) 2925.—Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a small town" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Bonhill ScoP Dunbartonshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Jamestown |
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