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Langbank
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Langbank is a village on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is 9.3 miles/15 km northwest from Paisley (Renfrewshire) and 3.4 miles/5.5 km east from Port Glasgow (Inverclyde) on the A8.
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Place details
- Locality
- Langbank
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 910
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Langbank
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS3873
- UK place.post_town
- PORT GLASGOW
- UK place.postcode_area
- PA
- UK place.postcode_district
- PA14
- UK place.dial_code
- 01475
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.static_image_name
- Main Road, Langbank - geograph.org.uk - 607456.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Main Road in Langbank
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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Langbank is a village on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is 9.3 miles/15 km northwest from Paisley (Renfrewshire) and 3.4 miles/5.5 km east from Port Glasgow (Inverclyde) on the A8.
==History== Langbank evolved as a dormitory settlement for Glasgow after the opening of the Glasgow and Greenock Railway in 1841, a function it still performs. Prior to that it was a scattered collection of farms with access to the river. An 1800 map makes reference to Longbank. It remains on the busy A8 trunk road, a few hundred yards from the start of the M8 motorway. Langbank railway station is on the Inverclyde Line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Langbank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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