Bridge Of Weir
Bridge of Weir is a village within the Renfrewshire council area as well as larger historic area of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Lying within the Gryffe Valley as well as supplying a going across factor for the River Gryffe, the village today offers mainly as a dorm room settlement for close-by Glasgow and also Paisley although it keeps a business centre of its own and also some light industry. The initial forms of the village happened with the surge of the West of Scotland cotton industry. From around 1793 the river Gryffe was being made use of to power numerous cotton rotating and also blanket making mills. The most substantial sector to arise in the town was natural leather. At its productivity top the tiny town sustained three tanneries. The leather market makes it through to today, currently on a single site, in the form of a highly successful, modern-day facility with 5 Queen's Awards for International Business.
