Lochwinnoch
Lochwinnoch is a village in the council location and historical region of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Lying on the financial institutions of Castle Semple Loch and the River Calder, Lochwinnoch is mainly a domestic dorm room town serving nearby city centres such as Glasgow and Paisley. Its population in 2001 was 2628. The Community also lends 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 church boundaries 7 others: Beith, Kilbarchan, Kilbirnie, Kilmacolm, Largs, Neilston as well as Paisley. Today, Lochwinnoch chiefly functions as a residential town, in addition to a satellite to the significant city of Glasgow. In 1972, a variety of buildings in the town were brought within a recently defined Lochwinnoch Conservation Area as an area of special building significance for preparation and atmosphere functions administered by the neighborhood authority. Lochwinnoch Primary School, the only institution in the village, commemorated its centenary in 2005. In 2003 it was the centre of a notable alien big cat sighting scare. Children were kept inside throughout break times, and also a cops helicopter was generated to search for the pet.
