Westcliff is a Council housing estate

Housing estate

A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance...

 situated in the western part of Dumbarton, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, across from Castlehill

Castlehill, Dumbarton

Castlehill is an area of the town of Dumbarton in the West Dunbartonshire area of Scotland. Located in the Western part of the town next to the Brucehill area, Castlehill was built as a council run housing scheme...

. It is one of the towns poorer areas and like the other housing estates in Dumbarton, it too has its share of drugs and crime. Westcliff was a originally farmland and was part of the parish of Cardross as was Castlehill, Brucehill and Westbridgend prior to the building of Dumbarton bridge which then linked Westbridgend forge with the town of Dumbarton. Havoc Park is near Westcliff and is home to local football teams such as Westcliff, Clydeshore and Dumbarton Harp.