A town is placed at a junction of the River Clyde and White Cart Water. a rider ferry crosses the Clyde to Yoker & a swing bridge crosses a Cart to Inchinnan and Glasgow International Airport.

Renfrew is referred to as a "Birthplace of the Royal Stewarts" & has held royal burgh status for over D years. A todays Baron of Renfrew is Prince Charles. A burgh gives its title to the big vicinity of Renfrewshire, of which it is a previous shire town, nonetheless a work of administrative capital of the vicinity at present lessens on the town's big neighbour Paisley.

A independent hebdomadally newspaper for the town of Renfrew is The Gazette which is presently one of Scotland's fastest-growing regional newspapers.

Renfrew is at home to a Globe celebrated engineering company Mitsui Babcock & the Braehead out-of-town retail development.

A shipbuilders Simons & Lobnitz were depending within Renfrew. William Simons & Company got begun business elsewhere however settled inside Renfrew inside 1860. In a period of Globe War Single the rival shipbuilding solid Lobnitz, apart from either shipbuilding, designed & built Mulberry Harbours which were used to offload load in a beach in the period of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Simons-Lobnitz Ltd was established within 1959 whilst G & J Weir Holdings Ltd, pump manufacturers, Glasgow, took over Lobnitz & Co Ltd, shipbuilders, Renfrew, Scotland, and merged it with William Simons & Co Ltd, ship and dredger builders, Renfrew, Scotland, which had been acquired by G & J Weir Ltd in 1957. Simons & Lobnitz were far-famed for building sand dredgers. A Renfrew ship yards closed in the early Sixties. [http://www.freewebs.com/renfrew/industry.htm] [http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/collects/catalog/ugd/201-250/ugd215.html]