Charleston is a district in the burgh of
Paisley in
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire () (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. Renfrewshire is located in the west central Lowlands. It borders East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire, and lies on the southern ba ...
,
Scotland
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. Once a village distinct from Paisley, Charleston has become absorbed as Paisley has expanded, in particular by housing developments in
Lochfield and
Glenburn.
Until the 1990s, Charleston was a mixed area of housing, industry and people were involved in stripping. However, the closure of several factories and the development of their sites for modern housing, has significantly changed the character of the area.
Housing on Neilston Road, Stock Street and Espedair Street provide typical examples of
Scottish tenement flats. Three to four storeys tall, with shops on the ground floor and constructed of local blond
sandstone
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, these tenement flats have been extensively restored and modernised since the 1980s.
The
Iain Banks
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (). After the success of '' The Wasp Fact ...
novel, ''
Espedair Street,'' takes its name from the street in Charleston and is partly set in the district.
Locally the area is nicknamed "Kentucky".
References
Areas in Paisley, Renfrewshire
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