Drymen.

Drymen lies 20 miles (32 km) north of Glasgow on the Southwest edge of the Highland Boundary, the landscape of rolling ridges in the area gives the village its Gaelic name - which means 'little ridges'. The settlement of the Drymen area was created by early farming and expanded by being on the major north / south drover’s route and having the first fordable crossing of the River Endrick upstream from Loch Lomond.

Drymen was an ideal stopover for cattle drovers on their way south and an industry grew up in the village supplying the needs of the drovers. The village pub - the 'Clachan Inn' - is the oldest licensed Pub in Scotland - dating from 1734. Drymen has 2 hotels and a small Visitor Information centre situated in the village Square. Military roads were built about 1745, linking the castles of Stirling and Dumbarton and passing through Drymen, which had grown to become a market town with its own cattle fair. During the 'Agricultural Improvements' ( The Clearances ) of the 18th century when landowners evicted tenants from their property, Drymen lost 40% of its population. Many of these people emigrated to Canada, America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Accommodation info for Drymen is on the | Over-night | page.

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