Bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins or another target.
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins or another target. Most references to bowling are to pin bowling, specifically tenpin bowling. Bowling can also refer to target bowling, such as lawn bowls. Bowling is played by 120 million people in more than 90 countries, including 70 million people in the United States.
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Worth seeing in and around Bowling
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Forth and Clyde Canal
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowed navigation from Edinburgh on the east coast to the port of Glasgow on the west coast.
500 m · canal in West Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Loch Humphrey
Loch Humphrey is a loch in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is fished for mainly perch and occasional trout by members of the Bearsden Angling Club, who have a boat and a boatshed at the loch.
2.6 km · lake in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK, outflows south to Loch Humphrey Burn · Wikipedia - 03Erskine Bridge
The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland. The bridge connects West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire and can be used by all types of motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.
2.1 km · bridge in Renfrewshire/West Dunbartonshire, Scotland · Wikipedia - 04Overtoun House
Overtoun House is a 19th-century country house and estate in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on a hill overlooking the River Clyde, it is two kilometres north of the village of Milton and three kilometres east of the town of Dumbarton.
3.1 km · 19th-century country house and estate in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Dunglass Castle
Dunglass Castle, situated in West Dunbartonshire on a rocky cliff overlooking the River Clyde, is a 14th-century ruinous castle. It was designated as a Category B listed building in 1971.
800 m · castle in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06County Buildings, Dumbarton
County Buildings was a municipal structure in Garshake Road, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The complex was the headquarters of Dunbartonshire County Council and was subsequently used as council offices for West Dunbartonshire Council.
4 km · municipal Building in Scotland · Wikipedia - 07Blantyre Monument
Blantyre Monument is a commemorative stone in Erskine, Renfrewshire. The monument is in the obelisk style.
1.8 km · monument in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bowling
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 8 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 48 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 70 km
- Stations
- Kilpatrick railway station, 2.5 km · Old Kilpatrick railway station, 2.4 km · Bowling railway station, 200 m · Bishopton railway station, 3.3 km · Bowling (L&D) railway station, 100 m
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bowling49 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Bowling70 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
- Belfast → Bowling174 km · quickest by road, 14h 23m · £75–100
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bowling
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bowling. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inis on the west bank of the river next to Balloch Road bridge, 100 yards from the ferry jetty.
- Get inThey run every twice per day M-F, but with times that work for those living in Balloch, but are no good for a day trip to Balloch.
From Wikivoyage: Balloch, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Bowling – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Bowling
Bowling is 16 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Erskinetown in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.9 km
- Bishoptonvillage in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK2.7 km
- Old Kilpatrickvillage in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2.1 km
- Miltonvillage in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK1.9 km