Bridge Of Weir
Bridge of Weir is a town within the Renfrewshire council area as well as larger historic region of Renfrewshire in the west main Lowlands of Scotland. Existing within the Gryffe Valley and also giving a going across factor for the River Gryffe, the town today offers largely as a dorm room settlement for neighboring Glasgow and Paisley although it maintains a business centre of its own and some light sector. The initial forms of the town became with the increase of the West of Scotland cotton market. From around 1793 the river Gryffe was being used to power various cotton rotating and blanket making mills. One of the most significant sector to arise in the town was leather. At its productivity optimal the tiny village sustained 3 tanneries. The natural leather sector endures to this day, currently on a solitary site, in the form of a very successful, modern facility with 5 Queen's Awards for International Business.