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Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a village and also civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, as well as the historic area of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It pushes the north slope of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 km) south-east of Greenock and also around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and also is part of a larger civil parish which covers a huge rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) having within it the smaller settlement of Quarrier's Village, originally developed as a 19th-century domestic orphans' residence. The location surrounding the village was resolved in primitive times and also emerged as part of a feudal society with the church split between separate estates for much of its background. The village itself continued to be little, providing solutions to close-by ranch communities as well as acting as a religious hub for the church. The name of the town stems from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, showing the commitment of its church to St Columba. The parish church was pointed out in a papal bull of 1225 showing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and it sits on the site of an old religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Once again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was constructed in the church and also is noteworthy for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, following the resident Lyle family members's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding in between the noble families of Kilmacolm was commonplace between Ages, and also in the 16th as well as 17th centuries, the church again pertained to the interest of the Crown for providing support to disallowed spiritual Covenanters. The personality of the village altered dramatically in the Victorian age, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. Much of Kilmacolm's contemporary structures were created between this date and the outbreak of World war. The appearance of such transportation web links enabled the town to increase as an upscale dorm room town serving the neighboring metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley as well as Greenock. The economic climate of the village reflected this population change, relocating far from its traditional reliance on farming to giving tertiary market services to residents and also visitors.