Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a village and civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, and the historical area of Renfrewshire in the west main 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 town has a population of around 4,000 as well as belongs to 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 household orphans' home. The area surrounding the village was worked out in ancient times and also emerged as part of a feudal society with the parish divided in between different estates for much of its history. The village itself stayed small, giving solutions to nearby ranch communities as well as acting as a spiritual center for the parish. The name of the town originates from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, showing the dedication of its church to St Columba. The parish church was stated in a papal bull of 1225 showing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and it sits on the site of an old religious community dating to the 5th or sixth centuries. Once more in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was built in the parish as well as is remarkable for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, complying with the resident Lyle household's support of an insurrection versus him. Feuding in between the noble households of Kilmacolm was commonplace in the Middle Ages, and in the 16th and 17th centuries, the church once more concerned the attention of the Crown for providing assistance to banned religious Covenanters. The character of the town altered considerably in the Victorian period, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. A number of Kilmacolm's modern buildings were created in between this date and the episode of World war. The emergence of such transportation web links allowed the town to increase as an upscale dormitory town serving the close-by urban centres of Glasgow, Paisley and also Greenock. The economy of the village showed this population change, relocating away from its traditional dependence on agriculture to giving tertiary field services to citizens as well as visitors.
