Row, Dumbarton, Scotland
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A parish, in the county of Dumbarton; containing, with nearly the whole of the former quoad sacra parish of Helensburgh, and with the villages of Gareloch-Head and Row, 3717 inhabitants, of whom 226 are in the village of Row........................................................................................................................................................
.......According to tradition, Sir William Wallace, after he had ravaged Dumbarton, and set fire to the castle of Roseneath, being closely pursued by his enemies, leaped into the Gareloch, and, swimming to the opposite shore, was hospitably entertained in the castle of Faslane by Earl Malcolm...................................................
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The Parish is bounded on the north-west by the Loch Long, on the south-west by the Gareloch, and on the south by the Firth of Clyde; and is about sixteen miles in length, and nearly four miles in mean breadth, comprising rather more that 40,000 acres, of which the relative proportions of arable and pasture have not been distinctly ascertained...........................................................................................................................................
............ For ecclesiastical purposes this parish, which was detached from the parishes of Roseneath and Cardross in 1648, is included within the bounds of the presbytery of Dumbarton and synod of Glasgow and Ayr.....................................................
......... The church situated in the village of Row, was built in 1763, and repaired in 1835; it is a neat plain structure, and contains rather less than 700 sittings. Churches have been erected in Helensburgh and Gareloch-head.........................