Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston held the estate in the 17th century until 1703 when it was acquired by the Lords Blantyre.

[7] In 1900 it passed into the ownership of William Arthur Baird, who inherited it from his grandfather, Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre.

[6] The development began in 1971 with the building of both privately owned and rented accommodation which boosted the town's population by around 10,000.

Having established itself as a thriving commuter town, the 1990s saw the building of larger and more expensive housing, aimed at more affluent property buyers.

As more private houses were built in the 1980s, Erskine started to become an attractive place to live due to location factors and accessibility to main roads and the M8 Motorway.

Most ex-and existing housing association stock are found in the Bargarran, North Barr and Park Mains areas of the town.

The town's Bridgewater complex provides a range of tertiary sector businesses, chiefly retail and leisure facilities.

These include supermarkets, a tanning salon, a dental surgery, a bakery, a butcher, a fish & chip shop, takeouts, a pub with dining area, a Chinese restaurant, an optician, a chemist, a doctors surgery, hardware store, a hair salon, an estate agency, a dry-cleaners and key cutting service, a swimming pool,[8] a funeral directors, a bank and a public library.

The bridge is the furthest west crossing point on the river and it soon expands to become the Firth of Clyde estuary.

The charity opened as Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers in 1916 due to the urgent need to treat the thousands of military personnel that lost their limbs in the First World War.

In February 2021, drug and alcohol addiction clinic Abbeycare Scotland relocated to the 34 bed unit in Meadows Drive no longer used by the Erskine charity.

Bodinbo Island was a hazard to navigation but was cut off from the main river by a training dike in the mid 19th century.

It was probably built in between 1789 and 1801 by the Fultons who made their fortune manufacturing silk in Paisley and one of the owners was W.T.Lithgow of the shipbuilding firm.

Newshot Island Nature Reserve, a salt marsh which juts out into the River Clyde, is located in Erskine.

Contrary to its name, it is now a peninsula, created from silt left over from the widening and deepening of the river in the 1930s, which connected the island to Erskine.

The nature reserve acts as a feeding and resting point for a wide array of migratory birds traveling to and from regions such as North America, Siberia and West Africa.

For Roman Catholic denomination state education, the town falls within the catchment area of Trinity High School in nearby Renfrew.