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| | Scottish Mining Villages - Renfrewshire |
 | | Standing amid a rich mineral field, where coal has been worked for upwards of three centuries, and ironstone for about sixty years, it was the seat from 1753 till 1820 of a copperas work, the only one in Scotland up to 1807. |
 | | It was founded about 1858 in connection with the working of ironstone mines, and like the mining village of Balaklava in the same county, received its name from the celebrated battle of the Crimean War. |
 | | Nitshill, a village in the SE corner of Abbey-Paisley parish, Renfrewshire, near the right bank of Levern Water, with a station on the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Kilmarnock Joint railway, 2 miles NE of Barrhead, and 4 3/4 WSW of Glasgow. |
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