Planned Town of Johnstone
- When
- 1782
- Where
- Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- Episodes
- 1
In 1782 the Laird of Johnstone, George Houstoun, commissioned designs for regular residential streets that became the planned town of Johnstone in Renfrewshire, Scotland, laid out around his family seat, Johnstone Castle, and associated with the cotton mill built there the same year.
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Background and detail
Background. Johnstone lies in Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland, at the western edge of the Greater Glasgow Urban Area. It developed largely as a planned community around the house of Easter Cochrane, later Johnstone Castle, seat of the Houston or Houstoun family, who took their name from the nearby village of Houston.
The 1782 Plan. In 1782 the Laird, George Houstoun, commissioned designs for a series of regular residential streets, which now form the town centre. The same year saw the building of a six-storey cotton mill, one of the largest in Scotland, later rescued from failure by Robert Burns of Paisley sometime before 1812.
People involved
- George Houstoun · Laird of Johnstone who commissioned the town's street designs
- Robert Burns of Paisley · credited with rescuing the Johnstone cotton mill from failure sometime before 1812; identity unresolved in the supplied sources
Sources
- Johnstone Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-30
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