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Extract from the Paisley Travel Guides:
Founded in the twelfth century as a monastic settlement around an abbey,
PAISLEY
expanded rapidly after the eighteenth century as a linen manufacturing town, specializing in the production of highly fashionable imitation Kashmiri shawls. Paisley quickly eclipsed other British centres producing the cloth, eventually lending its name to the swirling pine-cone design.
South of the train station, the
Abbey
(Mon-Sat 10am-3.30pm; free) was built on the site of the town's original settlement and was massively overhauled in the Victorian age. The unattractive, fat grey facade of the church does little jus...
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