Lochwinnoch
Lochwinnoch is a village in the council location and historic region of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Resting on the financial institutions of Castle Semple Loch and also the River Calder, Lochwinnoch is chiefly a property dormitory town offering neighboring metropolitan centres such as Glasgow as well as Paisley. Its population in 2001 was 2628. The Community additionally offers its name to a civil parish of some 50 sq mi (130 km2) of the surrounding countryside, consisting of the neighboring town of Howwood. The parish borders seven others: Beith, Kilbarchan, Kilbirnie, Kilmacolm, Largs, Neilston as well as Paisley. Today, Lochwinnoch chiefly serves as a property town, in addition to a satellite to the major city of Glasgow. In 1972, a number of buildings in the village were brought within a newly defined Lochwinnoch Conservation Area as a location of unique building importance for preparation as well as atmosphere functions carried out by the neighborhood authority. Lochwinnoch Primary School, the only college in the village, commemorated its centenary in 2005. In 2003 it was the centre of a noteworthy unusual big cat discovery scare. Youngsters were kept inside during break times, and a cops helicopter was brought in to search for the animal.