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Kilmacolm is a village as well as civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, and the historical county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It pushes the north incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock as well as around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The town has a population of around 4,000 as well as belongs to a broader civil parish which covers a big rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) containing within it the smaller negotiation of Quarrier’s Village, originally established as a 19th-century residential orphans’ residence. The location surrounding the village was cleared up in prehistoric times and also became part of a feudal culture with the parish separated in between separate estates for much of its history. The town itself stayed little, giving services to nearby ranch areas and also acting as a spiritual hub for the church. The name of the town derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, suggesting the commitment of its church to St Columba. The parish church was discussed in a papal bull of 1225 showing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and also it remains on the site of an old religious community dating to the 5th or sixth centuries. Once again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was built in the parish and also is notable for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, complying with the resident Lyle household’s support of an insurrection versus him. Feuding between the noble families of Kilmacolm was widespread in the Middle Ages, and in the 16th as well as 17th centuries, the parish again came to the interest of the Crown for offering support to disallowed spiritual Covenanters. The personality of the town transformed dramatically in the Victorian age, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. Many of Kilmacolm’s modern structures were constructed in between this date and also the break out of World war. The development of such transportation web links allowed the village to increase as an affluent dorm room village serving the nearby metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley and also Greenock. The economic situation of the town reflected this population modification, relocating far from its traditional dependence on farming to offering tertiary sector solutions to residents and also site visitors.