Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hollow-Wood or Howwood

Hollow-Wood or Howwood, a village in Lochwinnoch parish, Renfrewshire, with a station on the Glasgow and South-Western railway, 3 miles SW of Johnstone town. It has a post office under Paisley, a public school, and a chapel of ease, which last in 1874 was repaired and adorned with a handsome memorial window. Pop. (1871) 312, (1881) 333.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Renfrewshire ScoCnty
Place names: HOLLOW WOOD     |     HOLLOW WOOD OR HOWWOOD     |     HOWWOOD
Place: Howwood

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