Path to Cockels Loan
Introduction
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Path to Cockels Loan
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 19 May 2018
The path is in Image, so called after a Cockles Hill that appears on the first-edition OS map (surveyed 1857) at about Image, where there is (at the time of writing) a Shell filling station beside Paisley Road. "Cockles Hill: a hill so called having a trig station thereon it is also intersected by the turnpike road from Paisley to Renfrew" [OS Name Books, c.1860]. "Cocklees" appears (between Knock and New Mains) on the 1796 John Ainslie "Map of the County of Renfrew". It is "Cockles" on his 1821 "Map of the Southern Part of Scotland", and on John Thomson's 1832 map of Renfrewshire.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.864477
Longitude
-4.398946