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Bishopton

Bishopton is a village in , Scotland. It is located around 2 miles west of . Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton was located on the edge of the village and is now being redeveloped as private housing into a community named Dargavel.
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  • Type: Town with 4,640 residents
  • Description: village in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Bishopton, Renfrewshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bishopton railway station and Erskine Golf Club.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the village of Bishopton in , Scotland. The station is on the Inverclyde line, 13 miles west of . It opened on 29 March 1841. The station is managed by ScotRail.

Golf course
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on the banks of the at , . It sits on the border between Erskine and Bishopton. The club takes its name from the former Erskine Estate.

Tunnel
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bowling and Old Kilpatrick.

Village
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is a village in , , with a population of 740. It lies on the north bank of the , between the towns of and . is situated 1½ miles northeast of Bishopton.

Village
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, is a village in , . The name is said to be derived from St. Patrick ostensibly being born here. is situated 2 miles northeast of Bishopton.

Town
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is a town in the council area of , and historic county of the same name, situated in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the southern bank of the , providing the lowest crossing to the north bank of the river at the , connecting the town to in . is situated 2½ miles east of Bishopton.

Bishopton

Latitude
55.91011° or 55° 54′ 36″ north
Longitude
-4.51014° or 4° 30′ 37″ west
Population
4,640
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BOP
Open location code
9C7QWF6Q+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3742531587
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655548
Wiki­data ID
Q2098147
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Bishopton” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Bishopton”
  • Bengali: “বিশপটন”
  • Catalan: “Bishopton”
  • Cebuano: “Bishopton”
  • Chinese: “比索普頓”
  • Chinese: “比索普顿”
  • Chinese: “毕晓普顿”
  • Dutch: “Bishopton”
  • French: “Bishopton”
  • German: “Bishopton”
  • Gujarati: “બિશપટન”
  • Irish: “Baile an Easbaig”
  • Italian: “Bishopton”
  • Japanese: “ビショップトン”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಷಪ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “비숍튼”
  • Lithuanian: “Bišoptonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bishopton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bishopton”
  • Norwegian: “Bishopton”
  • Persian: “بیشاپتون، رنفروشر”
  • Persian: “بیشاپتون”
  • Portuguese: “Bishopton”
  • Russian: “Бишоптон”
  • Scots: “Bishoptoun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile an Easbaig”
  • Spanish: “Bishopton”
  • Swedish: “Bishopton, Renfrewshire”
  • Swedish: “Bishopton”
  • Tamil: “பிஷோப்டன்”
  • Telugu: “బిషప్టన్”
  • Urdu: “بیشوپٹن”
  • Welsh: “Bishopton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bishopton”. Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.