Bardrainney is a neighbourhood of
Port Glasgow
Port Glasgow ( gd, Port Ghlaschu, ) is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. The most recen ...
, in the
Inverclyde district of
Scotland.
Bardrainney, possibly from the
Gaelic
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for "hill of thorns", is (post 2000) a housing area, dating from the 1950s and built by the local council, on the hills above Port Glasgow, just to the south of the A761 road to Kilmacolm. The area is called after the farm of that name whose fields the houses occupy.
Local History and Heritage
Inverclyde Council. Accessed April 17, 2012. The farm buildings no longer exist, but they were roughly on the site of the house of Alexander Dalzell, factor to the Earls of Glencairn, on the highest spot in the area in the open space at the top end of the present Moss Road, and they may have co-existed with the house.
Image:Bardrainney Avenue.JPG, Bardrainney Avenue
Image:Bardrainney BISF Houses.JPG, BISF house
The BISF house is a British steel framed house, designed and produced by the British Iron and Steel Federation, and erected around the country from 1946.
BISF was an association of steel producers, formed in 1934 in order to provide central plan ...
s before and after renovation
Image:Hamilton Bardrainney Church.JPG, Hamilton Bardrainney Church
Image:St Mary The Virgin Church Bardrainney.JPG, St Mary The Virgin Episcopal Church
References
Housing estates in Scotland
Neighbourhoods of Inverclyde
Port Glasgow