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"INNERKIP, village and parish in extreme west of Renfrewshire. The village stands on Kip rivulet, 3 furlongs from its mouth, and 6 miles south-west of Greenock; is a pleasant place with charming environs; and has a post office under Greenock, a railway station, a hotel, a handsome Established church, a Free church, a fine mausoleum of the Shaw-Stewart family, and a public school with about 172 scholars. Pop. 580."
[From The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev. John Wilson, 1882.]

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