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Paisley

Paisley 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.
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  • Type: Town with 75,000 residents
  • Description: town in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Paisley, Renfrew” and “Paisley, Renfrewshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mirren Park and Paisley Gilmour Street railway station.

Stadium
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as The SMISA Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Paisley, Scotland. It is the home of St Mirren F.C. The stadium is the sixth home of the club and replaced Love Street.

Railway station
Photo: Daniel, CC BY 2.0.
is the largest of the four stations serving the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, , and acts as the town's principal railway station and also serves with easy walking and cycling access as well as a bus service from the station to the terminal.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mirin in Paisley, dedicated to Saint Mirin the patron saint of Paisley, is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Paisley and is the seat of the Bishop of Paisley.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Renfrew and Ralston.

Town
Photo: Chris Upson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town 6 miles west of in the west central Lowlands of . It is the historic county town of Renfrewshire. Called the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" for its early link with Scotland's former royal house, gained royal burgh status in 1397. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Paisley.

Suburb
is a small, middle-class, suburban settlement in , , being part of the greater town of Paisley. The district straddles the A761, the main dual-carriageway between Renfrewshire and the .

Town
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is a village in the council area and historic county of in west central . It chiefly serves as a commuter village, situated midway between the towns of Paisley and , and lies 11 miles west of city centre. is situated 2½ miles west of Paisley.

Paisley

Latitude
55.8456° or 55° 50′ 44″ north
Longitude
-4.424° or 4° 25′ 26″ west
Population
75,000
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB PAS
Open location code
9C7QRHWG+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25923939
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640677
Wiki­data ID
Q211870
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Paisley” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيزلي”
  • Armenian: “Փեյսլի”
  • Asturian: “Paisley”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peysli”
  • Basque: “Paisley”
  • Belarusian: “Пейслі”
  • Belarusian: “Пэйслі”
  • Belarusian: “Пэйсьлі”
  • Bengali: “পাইসলে”
  • Breton: “Pàislig”
  • Bulgarian: “Пейзли”
  • Bulgarian: “Пейсли”
  • Catalan: “Paisley”
  • Cebuano: “Paisley (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
  • Cebuano: “Paisley”
  • Chinese: “Paisley”
  • Chinese: “佩斯利”
  • Czech: “Paisley”
  • Danish: “Paisley”
  • Dutch: “Paisley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بايزلى”
  • Esperanto: “Paisley”
  • Finnish: “Paisley”
  • French: “Paisley”
  • Galician: “Paisley”
  • German: “Paisley”
  • Greek: “Πέισλι”
  • Gujarati: “પેશલી”
  • Hebrew: “פייזלי”
  • Hungarian: “Paisley”
  • Icelandic: “Paisley”
  • Irish: “Páislig”
  • Irish: “Pàislig”
  • Italian: “Paisley”
  • Japanese: “ペーズリー”
  • Japanese: “ペイズリー”
  • Kannada: “ಪೈಸ್ಲೇಯ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Пейсли (Шотландия)”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Пейсли”
  • Korean: “페이슬리”
  • Korean: “페이즐리”
  • Latin: “Paeslium”
  • Lithuanian: “Peislis”
  • Northern Frisian: “Paisley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paisley”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paisley”
  • Norwegian: “Paisley”
  • Persian: “پیزلی”
  • Polish: “Paisley”
  • Portuguese: “Paisley”
  • Romanian: “Paisley”
  • Russian: “Пейсли”
  • Scots: “Paisley”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Paisley”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Paislig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pàislig”
  • Serbian: “Paisley”
  • Serbian: “Pejsli”
  • Serbian: “Пејсли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paisley, Škotska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paisley”
  • Silesian: “Paisley (Szkocyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Paisley”
  • Sindhi: “پيزلي”
  • Slovak: “Paisley”
  • Slovenian: “Paisley”
  • Spanish: “Paisley”
  • Swedish: “Paisley, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Paisley”
  • Tamil: “பைஸிலே”
  • Tatar: “Пейсли”
  • Telugu: “పైస్లి”
  • Ukrainian: “Пейслі”
  • Urdu: “پاسلے”
  • Welsh: “Paisley, Yr Alban”
  • Welsh: “Paisley”
  • Welsh: “Pàislig”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیزلے”
  • “Paisley”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Paisley”. Photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 3.0.