page_title: Houston and Killellan
section_title: Houston
hierarchical_section_title: Houston and Killellan / Settlements / Houston
caption_attribution_description: English: North Street in the village of en:Houston, Renfrewshire, en:Scotland, en:UK.
context_page_description: Houston and Killellan is a civil parish in the county and council area of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It contains the villages of Houston and Crosslee, as well as a number of smaller settlements including Barochan and Killellan in its rural hinterland.
  Under the name Houston, the civil parishes boundaries are similar to that of the modern community council area, the most local level of local government in Scotland. The parish is situated in the Gryffe Valley, 5 miles north of Paisley, covering an area of 11.9 sq. miles and bordering the parishes of Kilmacolm, Erskine and Kilbarchan. It also forms an ecclesiastical parish in the Church of Scotland. The parish
  Killellan or Killallan is subject to a number of different spellings.
context_section_description: Houston is the main settlement of the parish and a substantial village. It also contains the residential settlement of Craigends, divided from the rest of the village by the River Gryffe to the north
caption: North Street, at the centre of Houston's conservation village
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