Place:Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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NameMearns
Alt namesNewton Mearnssource: Family History Library Catalog
Newton-Mearnssource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeParish
Located inRenfrewshire, Scotland
Contained Places
Seat
Greenbank
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Newton Mearns is a suburban town and the largest settlement in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It lies southwest of Glasgow City Centre on the main road to Ayrshire, above sea level. It has a population of approximately 26,993, stretching from Whitecraigs and Kirkhill in the northeast to Maidenhill in the southeast, to Westacres and Greenlaw in the west and Capelrig/Patterton in the northwest.

It is part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Its name derives from being a new town of the Mearns (from Scottish Gaelic "a' Mhaoirne" meaning a stewartry).

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