The Caledonian League is a football (soccer) league competition for amateur clubs in Scotland . It was formed in 1983 by inviting top amateur clubs, based in Scotland , with good facilities with high standards being set for admittance to the league Since its formation, the teams competing within the league have been of a good standard, with clubs from the league winning the Scottish Amateur Cup on nine occasions, also providing four losing finalists.
20-677: Member clubs are based across Argyll and Bute , Glasgow , West Dunbartonshire , and Stirlingshire . Like several other amateur leagues, it is a stand-alone association and is not currently part of Scotland's pyramid system . The Caledonian League is split into two divisions, a Premier Division of 12 clubs and a Division One of 16 clubs. The following model is valid as of season 2024–25: The Caledonian League has 28 member clubs, listed below in their divisions: Argyll and Bute Argyll and Bute ( Scots : Argyll an Buit ; Scottish Gaelic : Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bòd , pronounced [ɛrˠəˈɣɛːəlˠ̪ akəs̪ ˈpɔːtʲ] )
40-567: A large Victorian house on Argyll Avenue in Dumbarton. The council also inherited the Municipal Buildings at the junction of Church Street and Glasgow Road in the centre of Dumbarton from the abolished Dumbarton Town Council. The Municipal Buildings had been built in 1903, and the district council used the council chamber there as its meeting place and other parts of the building as additional office space. Both buildings passed to
60-698: Is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area . The current lord-lieutenant for Argyll and Bute is Jane Margaret MacLeod (14 July 2020). The administrative centre for the council area is in Lochgilphead at Kilmory Castle , a 19th-century Gothic Revival building and estate. The current council leader is Councillor Jim Lynch. Argyll and Bute covers the second-largest administrative area of any Scottish council. The council area adjoins those of Highland , Perth and Kinross , Stirling and West Dunbartonshire . The County of Bute and
80-539: Is the West Highland Line, which links Oban to Glasgow, passing through much of the eastern and northern parts of the area. From the south the line enters Argyll and Bute just to the west of Dumbarton, continuing north via Helensburgh Upper to the eastern shores of the Gare Loch and Loch Long . The line comes inland at Arrochar and Tarbet to meet the western shore of Loch Lomond . At the northern end of
100-534: The Strathclyde region of Scotland , covering the town of Dumbarton and surrounding areas to the north-west of Glasgow . The district was created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 , which established a two-tier structure of local government across mainland Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Dumbarton was one of nineteen districts created within
120-716: The lochs and hills of Argyll and Bute. The area has also been indirectly immortalised in popular culture by the 1977 hit song " Mull of Kintyre " by Kintyre resident Paul McCartney 's band of the time, Wings . The area is divided into 56 community council areas , all of which have community councils as at 2023. Largest settlements by population: 13,230 8,140 7,660 4,500 4,310 3,650 2,280 2,070 1,930 1,320 1,280 Purge Dumbarton (district) 56°01′N 4°38′W / 56.01°N 4.63°W / 56.01; -4.63 Dumbarton ( Scottish Gaelic : Dùn Breatainn ) was, from 1975 to 1996, one of nineteen local government districts in
140-571: The Argyll and Bute district covered the whole area of fourteen of Argyll's sixteen districts and part of a fifteenth, plus two from the County of Bute's five districts, which were all abolished at the same time: From the County of Argyll: From the County of Bute: The two County of Bute districts together corresponded to the whole Isle of Bute . The rest County of Bute, being the Isle of Arran and
160-533: The County of Argyll were two of the historic counties of Scotland. They were both " shires " (context; the area controlled by a sheriff ) in the Middle Ages . From 1890 until 1975 both counties had individual separate elected county councils. In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 , Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts were abolished and replaced with upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts . The Strathclyde region
180-564: The Cumbraes , went to Cunninghame district. The Ardnamurchan district from Argyll went to the Lochaber district of Highland. The new district was made a single Argyll and Bute lieutenancy area . Local government was reformed again in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 , which abolished the regions and districts which had been created in 1975, replacing them with unitary council areas . Argyll and Bute became one of
200-600: The ScotRail service is the nightly Caledonian Sleeper , although this does not run on the Oban branch. Helensburgh also has a much more frequent service into Glasgow and beyond via the North Clyde Line , which has its western terminus at the town's central railway station . The main trunk roads in Argyll and Bute are: Due to its heavily indented coastline and many islands, ferries form an important part of
220-617: The area west of a line drawn from Cameron House at Loch Lomond to the Firth of Clyde just west of the Castlehill area of Dumbarton. The rest of Dumbarton district merged with neighbouring Clydebank district to become the West Dunbartonshire council area. The 1994 act originally named the new district "Dumbarton and Clydebank", but the shadow authority elected in 1995 requested a change of name to "West Dunbartonshire", which
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#1732783986850240-538: The council area's transport system. The main ferry operator in Argyll and Bute is Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac), which operates services from the mainland to most of the inhabited islands. Several other routes are operated by commercial operators, usually on contract to the council, although the Western Ferries service across the Firth of Clyde is run on a commercial basis. There are also routes connecting some mainland locations in Argyll and Bute to other parts of
260-434: The loch the lines leaves Argyll and Bute to enter Stirling council area . The Oban branch of the West Highland Line re-enters the area just west of Tyndrum , and heads west to Oban: stations on this section of the line include Dalmally and Taynuilt railway station . The majority of services on the line are operated by ScotRail : as of 2019 the summer service has six trains a day to Oban, with four on Sundays. In addition to
280-577: The mainland: Argyll and Bute also has ferry services linking it to islands in neighbouring council areas: There is also a passenger-only ferry service linking Campbeltown and Port Ellen on Islay with Ballycastle in County Antrim , Northern Ireland , running seasonally from April to September, operated by West Coast Tours as the Kintyre Express. The later scenes of the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love were filmed around
300-458: The new council areas, but had its territory enlarged to include the town of Helensburgh and surrounding rural areas which had been in the Dumbarton district prior to 1996, and had formed part of the county of Dunbartonshire prior to 1975. The Helensburgh area had voted in a referendum in 1994 to join Argyll and Bute rather than stay with Dumbarton. The main railway line in Argyll and Bute
320-507: The region of Strathclyde . The district covered the whole area of five former districts and part of a sixth from the historic county of Dunbartonshire , which were all abolished at the same time: The main urban areas were Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven settlements just to its north, and the town of Helensburgh and neighbouring coastal villages on the Firth of Clyde . Further west, the terrain
340-418: Was agreed by the government before the new council area came into force. The first election to the district council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 16 May 1975. Political control of the council from 1975 was as follows: Elections were held as follows: The council established its main offices at Crosslet House,
360-454: Was created covering a large part of western Scotland. Strathclyde was divided into nineteen districts, one of which the 1973 Act called "Argyll", covering most of the former county of Argyll, but also including the Isle of Bute from the County of Bute. The shadow authority elected in 1974 requested a change of name to "Argyll and Bute", which was agreed by the government before the new district came into being on 16 May 1975. As created in 1975
380-611: Was increasingly mountainous and sparsely populated (much lying beyond the Highland Boundary Fault ). The middle of Loch Long was the western boundary and the middle of Loch Lomond the eastern boundary, excepting everything south of the Endrick Water which belonged wholly to Dumbarton. Much of the rest of the eastern border was with Stirling district in Central region , while the smaller Clydebank district
400-587: Was to the south-east. A boundary change in 1983 transferred the village of Croftamie from Dumbarton district to Stirling district. Dumbarton district was abolished in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 which replaced regions and districts with unitary council areas . In the lead-up to the reforms a referendum was held in which the more rural west of the district, including Helensburgh, voted to join Argyll and Bute rather than stay with Dumbarton. The part transferred to Argyll and Bute covered
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