A slipway is also part of the infrastructure, giving access to the dock at low tide, both once served by roads running through the Park Estate from the south.
The couple had a single child, a daughter Janet, who married George Houston and the lands then passed to a Cunninghame of Craigends.
[10] Humphrey Fulton of Hartfield amassed a considerable fortune through setting up silk manufacturing in Paisley[11] and his son William became the owner of Park in Inchinnan in 1789.
[18] By the late 1930s the beacon and quay were no longer marked on maps and the road to Park House had been truncated.
[3] The OS map of Renfrewshire in 1864 shows a wide jetty with a flagstaff and a small building on the western side.
It appears to have extended into the river as far as the low water mark, but the shoreline has altered considerably over the years due to dredging, building of training dikes, jetties, etc.
Some remain in a linear arrangement, reflecting the position they were grounded in when towed to their final resting place after mud punts became redundant due to improved dredging techniques.