Inchinnan
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Inchinnan (; ) is a small village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The village is located on the main A8 road between Renfrew and Greenock, just south east of the town of Erskine.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Inchinnan is referenced by 123 other articles, and connects out to River Cart, Renfrew and A8 road.
It sits within the topics Erskine, Renfrewshire and Villages in Renfrewshire.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Inchinnan
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,910
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Inchinnan
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.static_image_name
- Inchinnan, Renfrewshire - geograph.org.uk - 500837.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Inchinnan Village
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS475691
- UK place.post_town
- Renfrew
- UK place.postcode_area
- PA
- UK place.postcode_district
- PA4
- UK place.dial_code
- 0141
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Innis Fhionghain
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Renfrewhire North and West
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Inchinnan
- Population
- 1860
- Image
- Inchinnan, Renfrewshire - geograph.org.uk - 500837.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0141
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- Commons category
- Inchinnan
- P8168
- Alastaro
- native label
- Inchinnan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Inchinnan (; ) is a small village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The village is located on the main A8 road between Renfrew and Greenock, just south east of the town of Erskine.
==History== The name of Inchinnan village is derived from the Gaelic word 'Innis', which means an island or low-lying land near a river or stream. The other part of the name is taken from Saint Inan, a 9th-century confessor at Irvine. An ornamental cast iron enclosure near the ford protects "St Conval's Chariot" which is supposedly the stone that brought Saint Conval from Ireland to Inchinnan around 590, and a 12th-century church dedicated to Saint Conval was given to the Knights Templar by David I of Scotland. Another church called 'Hallows Church' replaced it in 1900. The newer church was then replaced by part of the airfield at Abbotsinch. The latest church (Inchinnan Parish) is in the centre of the village. It contains burial stones possibly dating back to around the 9th century. In the same enclosure as St Conval's Chariot, "Argyll's Stone" was supposedly where the 9th Earl of Argyll rested when he was captured in 1685, before he was executed in Edinburgh on the Maiden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Inchinnan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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