Neilston
Neilston is a village and parish in East Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the Levern Valley, 2 miles southwest of Barrhead, 3. 8 miles south of Paisley, and 5. 7 miles south-southwest of Ren frew. The village has grown from roughly 1,000 people in 1800 to 5,168 in 2001.
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Neilston is a village and parish in East Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the Levern Valley, 2 miles southwest of Barrhead, 3. 8 miles south of Paisley, and 5. 7 miles south-southwest of Ren frew. Neilston is mentioned in documents from the 12th century, when the feudal lord Robert de Croc, endowed a chapel to Paisly Abbey to the North. The annual Neilston Agricultural Show is an important trading and cultural event for farmers from southwest Scotland each spring. The village has grown from roughly 1,000 people in 1800 to 5,168 in 2001, and expansion continues due to several new housing developments. The first mention of Neilston was in the Chartulary of Pa isley Abbey, which mentions that the Anglo-Norman knight, Robert Croc of Crocstown, assigned the patronage of Neilstoun to the monks of St Mirren’s in 1163. Local historians have proposed various theories for the origin of the name Neilston. Although the first element is likely to derive from either the Gaelic forename ‘Niall’ or from the French Nigel, there is disagreement as to whether the second element represents the English’stone’ or ‘town’ Some writers have given etymological explanations which post-date 1163, for instance, it has been written that “Neil’ was a General of King Haakon IV of Norway, who, fleeing from the Battle of Largs, was overtaken in this locality and put to death.
According to the custom of the age a burial mound was supposedly erected over his grave and the locality ultimately received the name of the General. In the Middle Ages Neilston’s position in the Barrhead Gap, a pass linking Ayrshire to Glasgow, gave it strategic importance. Despite this, Neilston may have had a fort or watchtower at Coldcoun in Neilston in the 11th century. Because of its most important parish church, it became the most important settlement in rural Renf Drewshire and much later much of rural Scotland. The name ‘Neilston’ is a corruption of ‘Dunoun’ meaning castle or fort, and ‘Doun’ is perhaps the lack of physical warmth within the local tower or tower of the castle or tower, or the local greeting of ‘dun’ (dun) or ‘doun’ (pronounced ‘dough’) Neilston has a Category B listed church, which is said to be on the site of this original chapel and has been at the centre of the community since 1163 and is a Grade II listed building. The earliest recorded mention of its neighbour Barrhead was almost 600 years after Neilston’s mention in the chartulary of Paisleys Abbey of 1163 The chartary dealt with the foundation of the Clunaic Monastery and its relationship to chapel, which were both both via the Clunic Movement.
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