Kilmacolm

Kilmacolm ( listen) is a village and civil parish in the Inverclyde council area and the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern slope of the Gryffe Valley 7.5 miles (12.1 km) south-east of Greenock and around 15 miles (24.1 km) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and is part of a wider civil parish which covers a large rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150.0 km2; 57.9 sq mi) containing within it the smaller settlement of Quarrier's Village, originally established as a 19th century residential orphans' home.