This article is about a village in Scotland. For the hamlet in Canada, see Langbank, Saskatchewan. Langbank is a village on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The name is thought to come from ‘long bank’ (the first part being 'lang' in Scots. It is 9.3 miles/15km northwest from Paisley and 3.4 miles/5.5km east from Port Glasgow on the A8.

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  • This article is about a village in Scotland. For the hamlet in Canada, see Langbank, Saskatchewan. Langbank is a village on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The name is thought to come from ‘long bank’ (the first part being 'lang' in Scots. It is 9.3 miles/15km northwest from Paisley and 3.4 miles/5.5km east from Port Glasgow on the A8. Langbank evolved as a dormitory settlement for Glasgow after the opening of the Glasgow and Greenock Railway in 1841, a function it still performs. Prior to that it was a scattered collection of farms. An 1800 map makes reference to Longbank. It remains on the busy A8 trunk road, a few hundred yards from the start of the M8 motorway. Langbank railway station is on the Inverclyde Line. Visible along the shoreline at Langbank are the remains of the timber ponds where the shipyards of the lower Clyde stored timber for use in shipbuilding.
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  • This article is about a village in Scotland. For the hamlet in Canada, see Langbank, Saskatchewan. Langbank is a village on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The name is thought to come from ‘long bank’ (the first part being 'lang' in Scots. It is 9.3 miles/15km northwest from Paisley and 3.4 miles/5.5km east from Port Glasgow on the A8.
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