Uplawmoor - Wemyss Bay

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Uplawmoor or Ouplaymoor. A village in Neilston parish, at the foot of Loch Libo, 3 1/4 miles SW of Neilston town. It has a post and telegraph office under Glasgow.

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Wemyss Bay. A small watering-place in Innerkip parish, on the Firth of Clyde, immediately N of Skelmorlie in Largs parish, Ayrshire, and at the terminus of the Glasgow and Wemyss Bay railway (1865), 8 miles SW of Upper Greenock and 30 1/2 W of Glasgow. It has a number of handsome villas, a post office, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph departments, a reading-room presented to the inhabitants by the Misses Burns of Castle Wemyss in 1896, a branch of the Clydesdale Bank, a hotel, a steamboat pier, an English Episcopal church (1879) with a chime of 8 bells, and a Roman Catholic church (1887). See SKELMORLIE.--Ord. Sur., sh. 29. 1873.
White Cart. See CART.

    
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