Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a village and also civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, and also the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It rests on the northern slope of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) 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 becomes part of a larger civil parish which covers a big country hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) including within it the smaller sized settlement of Quarrier's Village, originally developed as a 19th-century property orphans' home. The location bordering the town was resolved in primitive times and emerged as part of a feudal society with the church divided between separate estates for much of its history. The town itself stayed tiny, supplying services to neighboring ranch neighborhoods as well as acting as a spiritual hub for the parish. The name of the village derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, suggesting the devotion of its church to St Columba. The parish church was discussed in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and it rests on the site of an old religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Once more 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's support of an insurrection versus him. Feuding in between the worthy family members of Kilmacolm was prevalent in the Middle Ages, as well as in the 16th and 17th centuries, the parish once more concerned the attention of the Crown for giving support to banned religious Covenanters. The personality of the town transformed substantially in the Victorian period, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. A number of Kilmacolm's contemporary buildings were constructed in between this date and also the episode of World war. The development of such transport web links enabled the town to broaden as a wealthy dormitory village offering the neighboring metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley and also Greenock. The economic situation of the town mirrored this population modification, moving far from its traditional dependence on agriculture to supplying tertiary field solutions to locals and also visitors.