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Helensburgh (Baile Eilidh within Gaelic) is a Scottish town historically part of Dunbartonshire, but since local government shakeup inside 1995 in Argyll and Bute, on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde. It was founded in the eighteenth century in the style of Edinburgh New Town, as a seaside resort.

Around 1903, Charles Rennie Mackintosh built the Hill House for the publishing king Walter Blackie. A home, on the northerly edge of town, is nowadays owned per National Trust and is popular tourist attraction. A town is as well notable as a ferry port for boats to Gourock and for the Waverley paddle steamer, and when a birthplace of John Logie Baird,Deborah Kerr & Jack Buchanan.

Its people at a 2001 census was 14,626.

Too when acting as a commuter town for nearby Glasgow, Helensburgh is heavily defined per presence of the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane.

A present Lady of Helensburgh is Baroness Eilidh Watson. Eilidh is Gaelic for Helen.

Helensburgh, New South Wales is also the suburban area of Sydney, Australia.

Helensburgh and Loch Lomond
This site is an unofficial guide to the Argyll, Helensburgh and Loch Lomond area.

Helensburgh 200
Changing streetscapes in Helensburgh - an experiment in visual history. Current planning issues on the eve of the town's 200th anniversary.

Helensburgh Information
Community and visitor information for Helensburgh and Loch Lomond including daily events calendar, business directory and photograph gallery.

Rhu Conservation Village
Community site for Rhu on the Clyde coast. Includes photographs and links to local businesses and organisations.

Gareloch and the Rosneath Peninsula
Community site of the lochside villages of Gareloch and the Rosneath Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland, including Cove, Kilcreggan, Rosneath, Clynder and Garelochhead.

Friends of Loch Lomond
Non-profit-making voluntary society which is dedicated to the protection, conservation and enhancement of this area of outstanding natural beauty, whilst having regard to the social and economic well being of the local communities

Helensburgh
Information resource for the local community and visitors alike. Includes business, community, shopping, entertainment and travel pages.

Country Dancing in Helensburgh and District
Local branch of Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society organises tuition and dances throughout the year.

Helensburgh Photographic Club
Meetings programme, competition details, and winning photographs.