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PARTICK (formerly Perdyc or Perthick)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARTICK (formerly Perdyc or Perthick)  , a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh of the See also:parish of See also:Govan, See also:Lanarkshire, See also:Scotland . Pop . (1891), 36,538; (1901), 54,298 . It lies on the See also:north See also:bank of the See also:Clyde, and is continuous with See also:Glasgow, from which it is separated by the See also:Kelvin, and of which it is a large and wealthy residential suburb . See also:Shipbuilding yards are situated in the burgh, which has also See also:industries of See also:paper-staining, See also:flour-milling, See also:hydraulic-See also:machine making, weighing-machine making, See also:brass-See also:founding and galvanizing . The tradition is that the flour-See also:mills and See also:granaries —the Bunhouse Mills—as they are called locally, were given by the See also:Regent See also:Moray to the bakers of Glasgow for their public spirit in supplying his See also:army with See also:bread at the See also:battle of Langside in 1568 . See also:Victoria See also:Park contains a See also:grove of fossil trees which were discovered in a See also:quarry . The See also:town forms the greater See also:part of the See also:Partick See also:division of Lanarkshire, which returns one member to See also:Parliament . Though it remained a See also:village till the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century, it is an See also:ancient See also:place . Morken, the Pictish See also:king who persecuted St See also:Kentigern, is believed to have dwelt here and, in 1136, See also:David I. gave the lands of Partick to the see of Glasgow . The See also:bishop's See also:palace stood by the See also:side of the Kelvin, and was occupied—or a See also:mansion erected for him on its site—by See also:George See also:Hutcheson (1580-1639), founder of the Hutcheson See also:Hospital in the See also:city .

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