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 (now in Linwood) from 1855. The hamlet of "Redan" was named to commemorate the storming of the fortifications - Redan - in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855). The miners from these settlements had their own rivalries. On Saturday 12 July 1859 the miners from "The Redan" in Linwood, on one side of the Black Cart Water, and their rivals from "Inkerman", on the other side, met in the (grandly called) "Battle of Linwood Bridge". (The bridge is still there at the end of "Bridge Street, Linwood"). The men were armed with various weapons such as mining tools, swords and cudgels. A bloody battle was fought resulting in the death of one man and several others were badly injured