Static Image Name: | Hardgate from the air (geograph 3988302).jpg |
Static Image Caption: | An aerial view of the town of Hardgate |
Country: | Scotland |
Official Name: | Hardgate |
Label Position: | left |
Os Grid Reference: | NS502725 |
Coordinates: | 55.922°N -4.403°W |
Pushpin Map: | Scotland West Dunbartonshire#Scotland Glasgow |
Lieutenancy Scotland: | Dunbartonshire |
Constituency Westminster: | West Dunbartonshire |
Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Clydebank and Milngavie |
Post Town: | Clyddebank |
Postcode District: | G81 |
Postcode Area: | G |
Dial Code: | 01389 |
Hardgate is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Hardgate has probably been settled since neolithic times with a burial site at Knappers Farm, a cup and ring marked stone and a burial chamber near Cochno Loch providing evidence of this.[1]
Although it is a far older settlement, it is administratively part of nearby Clydebank along with the neighbouring village of Duntocher and now lies in the West Dunbartonshire local authority area. Along with Duntocher and Faifley, Hardgate falls within West Dunbartonshiire's Kilpatrick ward with a combined population of 12,719 in 2011.[2]
Dunn's Mills operated a cotton mill in the 19th century. It continued to produce thread and yarn until its destruction during the Clydebank Blitz in 1941.[3]
The village expanded due to house building by the Clydebank town council after World War II, and later by the Wimpey firm in the early 1970s on what had been green belt land.
The village has one non-denominational school, Goldenhill Primary School.