Renton
"Renton, town and quoad sacra parish in Vale of Leven, Dumbartonshire. The town stands 2 miles north of Dumbarton, was founded in 1782, is a seat of manufacture, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Dumbartonshire, a railway station, a monument to the novelist Smollett, an Established church, 2 Free churches, a Gaelic Free church, a public school with about 230 scholars, and a female industrial school with about 52. Pop. of the town, 4319; of the quoad sacra parish, 4387."[From The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev. John Wilson, 1882.]
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