Mercat Cross
Mercat Cross is a monument in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Mercat Cross is situated nearby to the community center Houston Village Hall, as well as near the town hall Carrick Centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kilbarchan Steeple and St Fillan’s Kirk.
Kilbarchan Steeple
Town hall
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Kilbarchan Steeple is a town hall, which is situated 2½ miles south of Mercat Cross.
St Fillan’s Kirk
Place of worship
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Fillan's Kirk, Seat and Well are located in the hamlet of Kilallan, once the main religious centre of the ancient parish of Kilallan or Killellan, close to Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland. St Fillan’s Kirk is situated 2 miles northwest of Mercat Cross.
Linwood High School
School
Linwood High School is a non-denominational comprehensive state secondary school in Linwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The original school building was constructed in 1965 and demolished in 2006 for a new school to be constructed on the same site. Linwood High School is situated 2 miles southeast of Mercat Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Houston and Crosslee.
Houston
Village
Photo: Breadandcheese, Public domain.
Houston, is a village in the council area of Renfrewshire and the larger historic county of the same name in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Houston lies within the Gryffe Valley on the banks of the River Gryffe 6 miles north-west of Paisley and is the…
Crosslee
Village
Crosslee is a small village lying on the bank of the River Gryffe in the civil parish of Houston and Killellan, Renfrewshire, in Scotland. It lies around half a mile south of the old village centre of Houston and immediately west of Craigends, although residential development has removed any significant open space between the three.
Craigends
Quarter
Craigends is a residential area in the civil parish of Houston and Killellan in Renfrewshire, Scotland lying south of the River Gryffe and on the banks of the River Locher.
Mercat Cross
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.86903° or 55° 52′ 9″ northLongitude
-4.55004° or 4° 33′ 0″ westInception
1713Open location code
9C7QVC9X+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5584659994OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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