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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 518 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CATHCART  , a

parish situated partly in
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Renfrewshire and partly in
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Lanarkshire, Scotland . The Renfrewshire portion has the larger
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area (2387 acres), but the smaller population (7375), the area of the Lanarkshire portion being 745 acres and the population (1901) 20,983 . The
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industries include paper-making, dyeing and
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sandstone
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quarrying, but
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limestone and
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coal have also been worked . The parish includes the
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town of Cathcart (pop . 4808), and the villages of Old and New Cathcart, but much of it, though outside the city boundaries, is practically continuous with some of the
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southern suburbs of
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Glasgow, with which there is communication by electric tram and the Caledonian railway's circular
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line . The White Cart flows through the parish . In the 12th century Cathcart became a
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barony of the Cathcarts, who derived the title of their lordship (1460) and earldom (1814) from it . On the Queen's Knowe, a hillock near the ruins of Cathcart Castle, a memorial marks the spot where Queen Mary watched the progress of the
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battle of Langside (1568), the site of which lies within the parish .

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