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Houston (/ ˈ h uː s t ən / HOO-stən; Scots: Houstoun), is a village in the council area of Renfrewshire and the larger historic county of the same name in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
Houston and Killellan Kirk; the modern, unified parish church. Houston and Killellan is a civil parish in the county and council area of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It contains the villages of Houston and Crosslee, as well as a number of smaller settlements including Barochan and Killellan in its rural hinterland.
Houston was the only son of Sir John Houston, 2nd Baronet, of Houston, Renfrewshire, and his wife Anne Drummond, daughter of John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort. He was educated at Glasgow. In 1717, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1717. [1] Houston was elected as Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire at
History of Renfrewshire, Scotland. ... St Peter's Well, Houston; T. The Peel of Castle Semple This page was last edited on 19 June 2010, at 09:41 (UTC). ...
Houston Cottage And Ancillary Buildings North Street 55°52′15″N 4°32′48″W / 55.870765°N 4.546642°W / 55.870765; -4.546642 ( Houston Cottage And Ancillary Buildings North Category B
A historic Houston theater that director Richard Linklater called his “film school” and that for decades was the place to catch hard-to-find independent and foreign films has closed for good ...
Renfrewshire or the County of Renfrew is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.The lieutenancy area covers the three modern council areas of Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire, and this area is occasionally termed Greater Renfrewshire to distinguish it from the modern council area called Renfrewshire.
The church's manse, now Kilallan Farm or House, immediately adjacent to St Fillan's, is considered to be the oldest existing dwellinghouse in Renfrewshire. [1] It had a stable and a byre now converted and was sold around 1771 by the heritors, its condition being recorded as 'bad' in the first Statistical Account.