Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a village and civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, as well as the historic region of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 km) south-east of Greenock and around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The town has a population of around 4,000 and also becomes part of a wider civil parish which covers a large rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) having within it the smaller sized settlement of Quarrier's Village, initially developed as a 19th-century domestic orphans' residence. The location surrounding the village was resolved in ancient times and also emerged as part of a feudal culture with the parish divided in between different estates for much of its history. The village itself continued to be small, supplying services to close-by farm neighborhoods and also working as a religious center for the church. The name of the town derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, showing the devotion of its church to St Columba. The parish church was mentioned in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, as well as it sits on the site of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Once again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was created in the church as well as 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 worthy family members of Kilmacolm was typical between Ages, as well as in the 16th and 17th centuries, the parish once again pertained to the focus of the Crown for giving support to banned religious Covenanters. The character of the village changed dramatically in the Victorian period, with the arrival of the railway in Kilmacolm in 1869. Many of Kilmacolm's contemporary buildings were constructed in between this date and the break out of World war. The introduction of such transport links enabled the village to broaden as a wealthy dorm town offering the nearby metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock. The economic climate of the village mirrored this population change, relocating far from its typical dependence on agriculture to giving tertiary field services to citizens and site visitors.
