Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a town and also civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, and also the historic region of Renfrewshire in the west main Lowlands of Scotland. It pushes the northern incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock as well as around 15 miles (24 km) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 as well as becomes part of a broader civil parish which covers a big rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) having within it the smaller sized negotiation of Quarrier's Village, initially established as a 19th-century household orphans' house. The area surrounding the village was worked out in prehistoric times as well as emerged as part of a feudal culture with the parish divided between separate estates for much of its background. The village itself continued to be small, providing services to close-by farm areas and working as a spiritual hub for the parish. The name of the village derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, suggesting 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 also it remains on the site of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Once again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was built in the church and also is noteworthy for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, adhering to the resident Lyle family members's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding between the noble family members of Kilmacolm was widespread in the Middle Ages, and in the 16th and 17th centuries, the church once more came to the focus of the Crown for offering assistance to forbidden religious Covenanters. The character of the town altered substantially in the Victorian era, with the arrival of the railway in Kilmacolm in 1869. Many of Kilmacolm's modern buildings were constructed in between this date and the episode of World War I. The introduction of such transportation web links made it possible for the town to broaden as an affluent dormitory town offering the close-by metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock. The economy of the village reflected this population change, relocating away from its standard dependence on farming to supplying tertiary industry solutions to residents as well as visitors.