Lochwinnoch
Lochwinnoch is a village in the council location and also historic region of Renfrewshire in the west main Lowlands of Scotland. Resting on the banks of Castle Semple Loch and also the River Calder, Lochwinnoch is chiefly a residential dorm room village serving neighboring metropolitan centres such as Glasgow and also Paisley. Its population in 2001 was 2628. The Town also lends its name to a civil parish of some 50 sq mi (130 km2) of the bordering countryside, consisting of the neighboring town of Howwood. The parish boundaries 7 others: Beith, Kilbarchan, Kilbirnie, Kilmacolm, Largs, Neilston and Paisley. Today, Lochwinnoch chiefly works as a residential town, as well as a satellite to the major city of Glasgow. In 1972, a number of buildings in the village were brought within a newly specified Lochwinnoch Conservation Area as an area of special building importance for preparation and also setting functions carried out by the regional authority. Lochwinnoch Primary School, the only college in the town, celebrated its centenary in 2005. In 2003 it was the centre of a remarkable unusual big cat sighting scare. Kids were kept inside during break times, as well as a cops helicopter was generated to look for the animal.