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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 518 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CATHCART , a See also:

parish situated partly in See also:Renfrewshire and partly in See also:Lanarkshire, See also:Scotland. The Renfrewshire portion has the larger See also:area (2387 acres), but the smaller See also:population (7375), the area of the Lanarkshire portion being 745 acres and the population (1901) 20,983. The See also:industries include See also:paper-making, See also:dyeing and See also:sandstone See also:quarrying, but See also:limestone and See also:coal have also been worked. The parish includes the See also:town of Cathcart (pop. 4808), and the villages of Old and New Cathcart, but much of it, though outside the See also:city boundaries, is practically continuous with some of the See also:southern suburbs of See also:Glasgow, with which there is communication by electric tram and the Caledonian railway's circular See also:line. The See also:White See also:Cart flows through the parish. In the 12th See also:century Cathcart became a See also:barony of the Cathcarts, who derived the See also:title of their lordship (1460) and earldom (1814) from it. On the See also:Queen's Knowe, a hillock near the ruins of Cathcart See also:Castle, a memorial marks the spot where Queen See also:Mary watched the progress of the See also:battle of Langside (1568), the site of which lies within the parish.

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