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Johnstone is linked to Glasgow Central, Paisley and the Ayrshire coast by the Johnstone railway station which is located at the east of the town on Thorn Brae. A second unmanned station Milliken Park railway station lies at the west end of the town, just off the Cochranemill road. The railway line runs through the cutting of the old Glasgow ...
Name Location Date Listed Grid Ref. [note 1] Geo-coordinates Notes LB Number [note 2] Image Greenbeck Farmhouse And Steading Category C(S) 9879: Upload Photo: Raehills, Walled Garden, Gardener's House, Outbuildings And Sheds
Houston Saint Johnstone, Masonic Lodge 11 Collier Street, Dwarf Walls And Gatepiers 55°50′16″N 4°30′48″W / 55.837649°N 4.513218°W / 55.837649; -4.513218 ( Houston Saint Johnstone, Masonic Lodge 11 Collier Street, Dwarf Walls And G
Abbey, or sometimes Abbey Paisley, is a civil parish in Renfrewshire, Scotland traditionally centred on the towns of Paisley and Johnstone and including the smaller settlements of Elderslie, Inkerman, Hurlet, Nitshill, the Dovecothall area of Barrhead, and the hamlets of Thorn and Quarrelton, now subsumed into Johnstone
Johnstone Castle's principal claim to fame is a visit by the Polish composer Chopin in 1848. He had been invited by Anne Houston, wife of the then-5th laird of Johnstone Ludovick (1780-1862), as part of his Scottish tour. Anne's sister Jane Wilhelmina Stirling was a student and long-time friend of the composer, and had arranged the tour.
The station was renamed Johnstone High on 18 June 1955, [2] however its original name was restored on 10 September 1962. [2] Just to the east of the station there was a junction connecting to the Bridge of Weir Railway. In the 1960s it was the location of a car loading facility for vehicles manufactured at the Linwood Car Plant.
In Scotland, "locality" refers to a populated area composed of contiguous postcodes with populations of at least 500. [a] [2] The 52 localities with a population over 15,000 are listed below. [1] Glasgow is the most populous locality in Scotland, and also the largest city; Greater Glasgow is the largest settlement.
The PA postcode area, also known as the Paisley postcode area, [2] is a group of 67 postcode districts in western Scotland, within 35 post towns.These cover Renfrewshire (including Paisley, Renfrew, Johnstone, Bishopton, Erskine, Bridge of Weir and Lochwinnoch), Inverclyde (including Greenock, Port Glasgow, Gourock, Kilmacolm and Wemyss Bay) and most of Argyll and Bute (including Oban ...