Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a town as well as civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, and also the historic region of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It rests on the north incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 km) south-east of Greenock and also around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 as well as is part of a larger civil parish which covers a huge country hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) containing within it the smaller sized negotiation of Quarrier's Village, initially developed as a 19th-century household orphans' house. The area surrounding the village was cleared up in prehistoric times as well as became part of a feudal society with the parish split in between different estates for much of its history. The town itself remained tiny, providing services to neighboring farm communities as well as serving as a spiritual center for the church. The name of the town stems from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, indicating the dedication of its church to St Columba. The parish church was mentioned in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, as well as it remains on the site of an old religious community dating to the 5th or sixth centuries. Once more in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was constructed in the church and is noteworthy for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, complying with the resident Lyle family members's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding between the noble families of Kilmacolm was typical in the Middle Ages, and also in the 16th and 17th centuries, the church once again pertained to the attention of the Crown for offering assistance to forbidden spiritual Covenanters. The character of the village transformed significantly in the Victorian age, with the arrival of the railway in Kilmacolm in 1869. A lot of Kilmacolm's modern buildings were created in between this day and the outbreak of World war. The development of such transportation links allowed the village to expand as a wealthy dorm village offering the nearby urban centres of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock. The economic situation of the village mirrored this population adjustment, relocating away from its typical dependence on agriculture to offering tertiary industry solutions to homeowners and visitors.
