Howwood
Sign in to saveAlso known as Howwood, Renfrewshire
Howwood (, ) is a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is between Johnstone and Lochwinnoch, just off the A737 dual carriageway between the nearby town of Paisley and the Ayrshire border. It is served by Howwood railway station.
Weather now
cached 1042h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Howwood
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,580
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Howwood
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Coille an Dail
- UK place.scots_name
- The Howewuid
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS397602
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.post_town
- JOHNSTONE
- UK place.postcode_district
- PA9
- UK place.postcode_area
- PA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01505
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Renfrewshire South
via Wikipedia infobox
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- References
- External links
Howwood (, ) is a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is between Johnstone and Lochwinnoch, just off the A737 dual carriageway between the nearby town of Paisley and the Ayrshire border. It is served by Howwood railway station.
==History== thumb|Howwood seen from a nearby bike trail Its name is listed in the late 19th century Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland as "Howwood or Hollow-wood". Hollow-Wood is an anglicisation of the Scots language name Howewuid. The Surname Database gives the following etymology for the equivalent surname 'Howood': a topographical name from residence by a muddy wood, deriving from the pre-7th-Century Old English "horh", mud, slime, and "wudu", wood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Howwood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations
Available in 11 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0