A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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)
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| 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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