GOOR-uck) is a town falling within the Inverclyde council area and formerly forming a burgh of the county of Renfrew in the west of Scotland. It has in the past functioned as a seaside resort on the Firth of Clyde. Its principal function today, however, is as a popular residential area, extending contiguously from Greenock, with a railway terminus and ferry services across the Clyde.
Population: 11,390
Latitude: 55° 57' 41.65" N
Longitude: -4° 49' 4.40" W
Greenock Central station is one of eight railway stations serving the town of Greenock in western Scotland, and is the nearest to the town centre. This station, which is staffed, is on the Inverclyde Line, 37 km (23 mi) west of Glasgow Central towar…
Dalreoch railway station serves the west end of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line.
Strone (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sròn) is a village in Argyll in south-west Scotland at the point where the north shore of the Holy Loch becomes the west shore of the Firth of Clyde.
Luss Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in Luss, Argyll and Bute dedicated to Saint Kessog.
Loch Thom is a reservoir which since 1827 has provided a water supply to the town of Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland. It is named after the civil engineer Robert Thom who designed the scheme which created the reservoir and delivered water via a lon…
National grid reference NS14158694
On 25 June 1994, the 22:45 from Wemyss Bay to Glasgow, in Scotland, derailed and smashed into a bridge after hitting concrete blocks placed deliberately on the railway by vandals outside of where Drumfrochar railway station would be opened 4 years l…
HMP Greenock is a prison located in Greenock, Scotland, and serving designated courts in western Scotland by holding male prisoners (both adult and under 21s) on remand, and short-term convicted prisoners. It provides a national facility for selecte…
Faslane Castle and Shandon Castle were two mediaeval Scottish castles which once stood between the towns Garelochhead and Helensburgh, near the shores of the Gare Loch, in Argyll and Bute. In the 19th century, the castles were thought to have dated …
Faslane on Gare Loch is the name of a bay near the village of Garelochhead, and is now the main part of HM Naval Base Clyde in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, as well as being a Defence Logistics Organisation port, operated in dual site organisation with…
Cove is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
YOUR Radio (formerly CastleRock FM) is a British independent local radio station, serving West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh areas of western Scotland.
Strathgryffe or Gryffe Valley (both also spelled Gryfe) (Gaelic: Srath Ghriobhaidh) is a strath centred on the River Gryffe in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
The Skelmorlie Aisle of Largs Old Kirk is the remains of a church in the town of Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Largs Academy is a Scottish secondary school, opened in August 1970, serving the towns of Largs, Fairlie, Skelmorlie and the island of Cumbrae, as well as taking placement requests from across Scotland, from places such as Beith and Renfrewshire.
Keil School, in Dumbarton, Scotland, opened on 29 November 1915 as Kintyre Technical College, at Keil House, Southend, near Campbeltown in Argyll. After a fire destroyed the original building in Southend it was relocated and opened in Dumbarton as K…
Inchtavannach (Scottish Gaelic: Innis Taigh a' Mhanaich; English: Island of the Monk's House), is one of the larger islands in Loch Lomond.
Hunters Quay (Scottish Gaelic: Camas Rainich) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.