Inchinnan, the Glossary
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56 relations: A8 road (Scotland), Airship, Arriva Scotland West, Bascule bridge, Catchment area, Clydebank, Clydeside Scottish, Confessor, David I of Scotland, Donald Gregory, Doosan Babcock, Earl of Lennox, Erskine, Erskine Bridge, Ford (crossing), Freestone (masonry), Glasgow, Glasgow Airport, Greenock, India of Inchinnan, Ironstone, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Knights Templar, List of Category A listed buildings in Renfrewshire, Lord Darnley, M&Co., M8 motorway (Scotland), Maiden (guillotine), McGill's Bus Services, Non-denominational, Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency), Paisley, Renfrewshire, Park Mains High School, Park Quay, R33-class airship, R36 (airship), Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire North and West (Scottish Parliament constituency), River Cart, River Clyde, River Gryfe, Robert Burns, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Saint Conval, Saint Inan, Scottish Gaelic, Sir William Arrol & Co., Spoil tip, State school, ... Expand index (6 more) »
- Villages in Renfrewshire
A8 road (Scotland)
The A8 is a major road in Scotland, connecting Edinburgh to Greenock via Glasgow.
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Airship
An airship is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power.
Arriva Scotland West
Arriva Scotland West was a bus company based in Inchinnan, near Paisley, Scotland.
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Bascule bridge
A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf, throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic.
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Catchment area
In human geography, a catchment area is the area from which a location, such as a city, service or institution, attracts a population that uses its services and economic opportunities.
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Clydebank
Clydebank (Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Clydeside Scottish
Clydeside Scottish Omnibuses Ltd was a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from Western SMT Company Ltd.
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Confessor
In a number of Christian traditions, including Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, a confessor is a priest who hears the confessions of penitents and pronounces absolution.
David I of Scotland
David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern Gaelic: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153.
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Donald Gregory
Donald Gregory (1803–1836) was a Scottish historian and antiquarian, who published a valuable history of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland.
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Doosan Babcock
Altrad Babcock Ltd (formerly Doosan Babcock Ltd.) is a power sector OEM, construction, upgrade, and after-market services company that offers specialist services and technologies to the fossil-fired power generation, nuclear power generation, and oil, gas, and petrochemical industries.
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Earl of Lennox
The Earl or Mormaer of Lennox was the ruler of the region of the Lennox in western Scotland.
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Erskine
Erskine (Erskin, Arasgain) is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire, and historic county of the same name, situated in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland.
Erskine Bridge
The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
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Ford (crossing)
A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet.
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Freestone (masonry)
A freestone is a type of stone used in masonry for molding, tracery and other replication work required to be worked with the chisel.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
Glasgow Airport
Glasgow Airport, also known as Glasgow International Airport (Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Ghlaschu), formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport in Scotland.
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Greenock
Greenock (Greenock; Grianaig) is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
India of Inchinnan
India of Inchinnan is now a commercial site in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, that was formerly used for various industrial uses.
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Ironstone
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron (Fe) can be smelted commercially.
Irvine, North Ayrshire
Irvine (Irvin; Irbhinn) is a town and former royal burgh on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity.
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List of Category A listed buildings in Renfrewshire
This is a list of Category A listed buildings in the Renfrewshire council area in west-central Scotland.
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Lord Darnley
Lord Darnley is a noble title associated with a Scottish Lordship of Parliament, first created in 1356 for the family of Stewart of Darnley and tracing a descent to the Dukedom of Richmond in England.
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M&Co.
M&Co Trading Limited, previously Mackays Stores Limited until its 2020 administration, (previously trading as Mackays, now trading as M&Co.) is a Scottish chain store selling women's, men's, and children's clothes, as well as small homeware products.
M8 motorway (Scotland)
The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland.
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Maiden (guillotine)
The Maiden (also known as the Scottish Maiden) is an early form of guillotine, or gibbet, that was used between the 16th and 18th centuries as a means of execution in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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McGill's Bus Services
McGill's Bus Services is a bus operator based in Greenock, Scotland.
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Non-denominational
A non-denominational person or organization is one that does not follow (or is not restricted to) any particular or specific religious denomination.
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Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)
Paisley and Renfrewshire North is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Paisley, Renfrewshire
Paisley (Paisley; Pàislig) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Park Mains High School
Park Mains High School is a secondary school in Erskine, Renfrewshire.
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Park Quay
The disused Park Quay or Fulton's Quay (NS 47436 70692) is located on the old Lands of Park, situated on the south bank of the River Clyde in the Parish of Inchinnan, close to Newshot Island and the old Rashielee Quay.
R33-class airship
The R.33 class of British rigid airships were built for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, but were not completed until after the end of hostilities, by which time the RNAS had become part of the Royal Air Force.
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R36 (airship)
R.36 was a British airship designed during World War I, but not completed until after the war.
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Renfrew
Renfrew (Renfrew; Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire (Renfrewshire; Siorrachd Rinn Friù) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
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Renfrewshire North and West (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Renfrewshire North and West is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).
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River Cart
The River Cart is a tributary of the River Clyde, Scotland, which it joins from the west roughly midway between the towns of Erskine and Renfrew and opposite the town of Clydebank.
River Clyde
The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.
River Gryfe
The River Gryfe (or Gryffe) is a river and tributary of the Black Cart Water, running through the County of Renfrew in the west of Scotland.
Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.
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Rolls-Royce Holdings
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.
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Saint Conval
Saint Conval (Conwall) (died c.630) was an Irish-born missionary who, according to legend recorded in the Aberdeen Breviary, as he was praying on the sea shore "to be borne, by whatsoever means, to the regions beyond the sea", was miraculously carried by the stone he stood on across the Irish Sea to Inchinnan in Scotland.
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Saint Inan
Saint Inan (Evan) was the patron saint of Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he is said to have resided during the 9th century AD.
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Sir William Arrol & Co.
Sir William Arrol & Co. was a Scottish civil engineering and construction business founded by William Arrol and based in Glasgow.
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Spoil tip
A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – waste material removed during mining.
State school
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge.
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Trinity High School, Renfrew
Trinity High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Renfrew, Scotland.
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Western SMT
Western Scottish Motor Traction Co.
White Cart Bridge
White Cart Bridge is a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge situated on the A8 road in Renfrew, Scotland.
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Wilhelmina Alexander
Wilhelmina Alexander (1756–1843), was born at Newton House, Elderslie, Renfrewshire.
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William Beardmore and Company
William Beardmore and Company was a British engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
See also
Villages in Renfrewshire
- Bishopton, Renfrewshire
- Bridge of Weir
- Brookfield, Renfrewshire
- Craigends
- Crosslee
- Elderslie, Scotland
- Houston, Renfrewshire
- Howwood
- Inchinnan
- Kilbarchan
- Langbank
- List of places in Renfrewshire
- Lochwinnoch
- Meikle Millbank Mill
- Ranfurly, Renfrewshire
- St Fillan's Kirk, Seat and Well
- St Peter's Well, Houston
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchinnan
, Trinity High School, Renfrew, Western SMT, White Cart Bridge, Wilhelmina Alexander, William Beardmore and Company, World War I.