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Kilmacolm

Kilmacolm is a town and also civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, as well as the historical county 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 as well as 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 country hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) having within it the smaller settlement of Quarrier's Village, initially established as a 19th-century residential orphans' house. The area surrounding the village was resolved in ancient times and also became part of a feudal culture with the parish separated between separate estates for much of its history. The village itself remained tiny, providing services to nearby farm areas and also working as a religious center for the parish. The name of the town derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, suggesting the commitment of its church to St Columba. The parish church was mentioned in a papal bull of 1225 showing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, as well as it sits on the website of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or sixth centuries. Once more in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was constructed in the church and is noteworthy for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, adhering to the resident Lyle household's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding in between the noble families of Kilmacolm was widespread between Ages, and also in the 16th as well as 17th centuries, the parish once again came to the interest of the Crown for giving assistance to disallowed spiritual Covenanters. The character of the town transformed dramatically in the Victorian era, with the arrival of the railway in Kilmacolm in 1869. Much of Kilmacolm's modern structures were constructed between this day and the episode of World war. The appearance of such transport web links enabled the town to increase as an affluent dormitory town offering the close-by city centres of Glasgow, Paisley and also Greenock. The economy of the village reflected this population adjustment, moving away from its conventional reliance on agriculture to offering tertiary sector services to citizens and site visitors.