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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.
Blythswood, an estate, with the seat of Sir Archibald Campbell, Bart. (cre. 1880), in Renfrew parish, Renfrewshire. The mansion, on the low flat peninsula between the Clyde and the Cart, 1 mile NW of Renfrew town, is a neat, large, modern edifice, surrounded by a finely wooded park, on 11 Oct. 1876 it was visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their two sons and Prince John of Glücksburg. Sir Archibald owns in the shire 1826 acres, valued at £5931, including £1907 for minerals. The estate was originally called Renfield; is celebrated, under that name, in Wilson's Clyde; and, at the erection of the present mansion, took the name of Blythswood from a small but now very valuable estate belonging to the same proprietor, which forms a handsome north-western portion of Glasgow. The names Renfrew, Renfield, and Blythswood all figure in the Glasgow street nomenclature; and the name Blythswood gives designation to a registration district of that city, with 30,525 inhabitants in 1881. A large stone on the Renfield-Blythswood estate, close to the road from Renfrew to Inchinnan, marks the spot where Archibald Campbell, ninth Earl of Argyll, was captured in peasant disguise in 1685; and consists of a fragment of rock, weighing probably 2 tons, and containing some reddish veins which were long believed to be stains of the Earl's blood.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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