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Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. Renfrewshire is located in the west central Lowlands. It borders , , , and , and lies on the southern bank of the .
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  • Type: County with 176,000 residents
  • Description: council area in Scotland
  • Also known as: “Renfrew” and “Renfrew County”
Photo: Chris Upson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Milliken Park railway station and Johnstone railway station.

Railway station
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serves the west end of and the south west of the village of in Renfrewshire, . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

Railway station
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serves the town of , Renfrewshire, . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line 10+3⁄4 miles south west of .

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paisley and Johnstone.

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is a town in Renfrewshire, on in the of Scotland, with a population of 79,40 in 2020. It was a major centre for textiles, mass-producing "Paisley pattern" fabrics, though all the mills are long gone.

Town
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is a town in the administrative area of Renfrewshire and larger historic county of the same name, in the west central Lowlands of . The town lies 3 miles west of neighbouring , 12 miles west of the centre of the city of and 12 miles north east of .

Town
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is a town in Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of , 14 miles west of . It is about 1+1⁄2 miles northeast of and west of close to the Black Cart Water and the A737 road.

Renfrewshire

Latitude
55.8333° or 55° 50′ north
Longitude
-4.5° or 4° 30′ west
Population
176,000
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
Abbreviation
“RFW”
Open location code
9C7QRGM2+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302324117
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2639494
Wiki­data ID
Q211091
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Renfrewshire” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Renfrewshire”
  • Bavarian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Belarusian: “Рэнфрушыр”
  • Bengali: “রেনফ্রিউশায়ার”
  • Breton: “Siorrachd Rinn Friù”
  • Bulgarian: “Ренфрушър”
  • Catalan: “Renfrewshire”
  • Cebuano: “Renfrewshire”
  • Chechen: “Ренфрушир”
  • Chinese: “Renfrewshire”
  • Chinese: “伦弗鲁郡”
  • Chinese: “倫弗魯郡”
  • Chinese: “聯福郡”
  • Czech: “Renfrewshire”
  • Danish: “Renfrewshire”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Renfrewshire”
  • Dutch: “Renfrewshire”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رينفروشاير”
  • Esperanto: “Renfrewshire”
  • Estonian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Renfrewshire”
  • Finnish: “Renfrewshire”
  • French: “Renfrewshire”
  • Galician: “Renfrewshire”
  • German: “GB-RFW”
  • German: “Renfrewshire”
  • Gujarati: “રેનફ્ર્યુશાયર”
  • Hausa: “Renfrewshire”
  • Hebrew: “רנפרושייר”
  • Icelandic: “Renfrewshire”
  • Irish: “Comhairle Siorrachd Rinn Friù”
  • Irish: “Siorrachd Rinn Friù”
  • Italian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Japanese: “レンフルーシャー”
  • Japanese: “レンフルーシャイア”
  • Kannada: “ರೆನ್ಫ್ರೂಷೈರ್”
  • Korean: “렌프루셔 주”
  • Korean: “렌프루셔”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Renfrui”
  • Lithuanian: “Renfruširas”
  • Lithuanian: “Renfrušyras”
  • Manx: “Coontae Rinn Friù”
  • Manx: “Sheer Rinn Friù”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Renfrewshire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Renfrewshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Renfrewshire”
  • Norwegian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Ossetian: “Ренфрушир”
  • Persian: “رنفروشایر”
  • Persian: “رنفروشر”
  • Polish: “Renfrewshire”
  • Portuguese: “Renfrewshire”
  • Romanian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Russian: “Ренфрушир”
  • Russian: “Ренфрюшир”
  • Scots: “Renfrewshire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Comhairle Siorrachd Rinn Friù”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Rinn Friù”
  • Serbian: “Википедија:Пренос чланака/Renfrewshire”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Slovenian: “Renfrewshire”
  • Spanish: “Renfrewshire”
  • Swedish: “Renfrewshire”
  • Tamil: “ரேண்பிரயூஷிர்”
  • Telugu: “రెన్ ఫ్రెవ్ షైర్”
  • Turkish: “Renfrewshire”
  • Ukrainian: “Ренфрюшир”
  • Urdu: “رینفروشائر”
  • Urdu: “رینفریوشائر”
  • Vietnamese: “Renfrewshire”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Renfrew”
  • Western Panjabi: “رنفریوشائر”
  • Yue Chinese: “聯福郡”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Johnstone Castle and Quarrelton.

Notable Places Nearby

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