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PORT GLASGOW

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORT See also:GLASGOW , a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh and seaport of See also:Renfrewshire, See also:Scotland, on the See also:southern See also:shore of the See also:Firth of See also:Clyde, 204 M. W.N.W. of Glasgow by the Caledonian railway. Pop. (1901), 16,857. The ground behind the See also:town rises to a height of 700 ft. and is partly occupied by villas. Amongst the See also:principal buildings are the town See also:house (1815), with a See also:tower and See also:spire; the town See also:hall (1873); the library (1887) founded by See also:James See also:Moffat, a See also:merchant of the burgh, and the See also:Carnegie See also:Park See also:Orphan-See also:age, also provided from the same See also:bequest. Birkmyre Park was opened in 1894. The See also:industries include See also:shipbuilding and allied trades, See also:engineering See also:works, and See also:iron and See also:brass foundries. The See also:area of the port (which has wet and graving docks) amounts to 16 acres, and there are 2000 yds. of quayage. The harbours are accessible at all stages of the See also:tide. The See also:district originally formed See also:part of the See also:parish of Kilmalcolm, the See also:nucleus of the town being the See also:village of See also:Newark attached to the See also:barony of that name. In 1668 it was See also:purchased from See also:Sir See also:Patrick See also:Maxwell of Newark by the Glasgow magistrates, who here constructed a See also:harbour.

In 1695 it was erected into a See also:

separate parish under the name of New Port Glasgow. In 1710 it became the See also:chief See also:custom-house port for the Clyde, until superseded by See also:Greenock. The graving See also:dock made in 1762 was the first dock of the See also:kind in Scotland. In 1775 Port Glasgow was created a burgh of barony and since 1832 has formed one of the See also:Kilmarnock See also:parliamentary burghs (with Kilmarnock, See also:Dumbarton, See also:Renfrew and Rutherglen). It is governed by a See also:council with See also:provost and bailies. Adjoining the town on the See also:east are the picturesque ruins of Newark See also:Castle, a quadrangular See also:building dating from the end of the 16th See also:century. Formerly the See also:property of the Dennistouns, it now belongs to the See also:Shaw-Stewarts.

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