Inkerman, Renfrewshire

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title: Inkerman, Renfrewshire
text: Inkerman was a small hamlet set up in 1858 in the Abbey Parish of Paisley to house ironstone miners. Later employment came from ancillary operations, including shale coal and oilworks. Inkerman has a total of seven pits. The hamlet was named after a recent (1854) British military victory, the Battle of Inkerman, in the Crimean War. Similarly, the nearby Balaklava settlement housed miners for the Clippens mines from 1855. The hamlet of Redan was named to commemorate the storming of the fortificat
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date modified: 2021-08-07T05:35:52Z
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