Bishopton (/bɪʃəptən/) (Scots: Bishoptoun; Scottish Gaelic: Baile an Easbaig)[2][3] is a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

[4] Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton was located on the edge of the village and is now being redeveloped as private housing into a community named Dargavel.

[9] The fort at Whitemoss Farm may have been held initially from 140 to 155 A.D.[10] Pottery with Antonine era date stamps was found at the site.

[11] The pottery and many other finds were catalogued at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow[12] along with several coeval items like the distance slab of the Twentieth Legion from Old Kilpatrick.

The Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton (ROF) was opened during World War II on farm land, acquired by compulsory purchase order.

The southern end of the site included the majority of the land formerly used by the World War I National Filling Factory, Georgetown.

In 2005, BAE Systems and Redrow submitted proposals to use a large part of the site for building new housing which would, at least, double the size of Bishopton.

A new, second, primary school which was originally approved in 2009[34] had still not been completed a decade on and was reassessed to be built in 2021[23] with fresh concerns over the proposed catchment zone potentially leading to division between the old and new communities in the area, and that the school would simply be too small to cope with the ongoing influx of children, with the majority of the Dargavel housing being marketed for young families to move there.

[37][35][38] In July 2024, it was announced focus groups were to take place on the development of a new school to be built on land located at the north end of Craigton Drive.

Bishopton is located around 2 miles (3 km) from the southern end of the Erskine Bridge, which spans the River Clyde between Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire.