Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Gateside

Gateside, a village in Neilston parish, Renfrewshire, on the left side of Levern Water, and on the Glasgow and Neilston railway, 1¼ mile WSW of the centre of Barrhead. One of the cluster of seats of manufacture, all popularly called Barrhead, it had a cotton factory so early as 1786. Pop. (l861) 455, (1871) 399, (1881) 465.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Neilston ScoP       Renfrewshire ScoCnty
Place: Gateside

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