Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a town and civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, as well as the historic area of Renfrewshire in the west main Lowlands of Scotland. It rests on the north incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock and also around 15 miles (24 km) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and belongs to a bigger civil parish which covers a big rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) containing within it the smaller settlement of Quarrier's Village, initially established as a 19th-century property orphans' residence. The location bordering the village was resolved in primitive times and also emerged as part of a feudal culture with the parish split in between separate estates for much of its background. The village itself continued to be small, supplying solutions to neighboring ranch areas and functioning as a spiritual hub for the church. 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 mentioned 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 sixth centuries. Once more in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was built in the parish and is notable for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, following the resident Lyle family members's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding between the worthy households of Kilmacolm was typical in the center Ages, and in the 16th as well as 17th centuries, the church once again came to the attention of the Crown for offering assistance to banned religious Covenanters. The character of the village altered dramatically in the Victorian era, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. Much of Kilmacolm's modern structures were built in between this day and the episode of World War I. The appearance of such transportation web links allowed the village to expand as an affluent dormitory town offering the neighboring metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley as well as Greenock. The economic situation of the village mirrored this population adjustment, relocating away from its traditional dependence on farming to supplying tertiary field solutions to homeowners and also site visitors.
