Fort Matilda
Fort Matilda is an area of the town of Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland. Its name comes from a coastal battery built on Whiteforeland Point 1814–1819 to defend the River Clyde.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Matilda railway station and Finnart St Paul’s Church.
Fort Matilda railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Matilda railway station lies at the far western edge of the town of Greenock, Scotland. It is a non-staffed station, and is the last stop before the terminus of Gourock railway station on the Inverclyde Line out of Glasgow Central station.
Sir Gabriel Wood’s Mariners’ Home
Building
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sir Gabriel Wood’s Mariners’ Home is a building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gourock and Greenock West.
Gourock
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gourock is a ferry port on Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland. Most visitors are only passing through, to catch ferries to Dunoon in Argyll. In 2022 Gourock had a population of 10,200.
Greenock West
Suburb
Greenock West, also known simply as the West End, is an area of Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. The streets are in a grid like layout referred to as blocks as opposed to the irregular street patterns elsewhere in the town.
Midton
Suburb
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gourock is a town in the Inverclyde council area and formerly a burgh of the County of Renfrew in the west of Scotland. It was a seaside resort on the East shore of the upper Firth of Clyde.
Fort Matilda
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
- Categories: neighborhood, fort, and locality
- Location: Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.95998° or 55° 57′ 36″ northLongitude
-4.79513° or 4° 47′ 43″ westElevation
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
9C7QX653+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 5362305204OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Scottish Gaelic—“Fort Matilda” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fort Matilda”
- Irish: “Gearastan Matilda”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gearastan Matilda”
- “Fort Matilda”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Matilda”. Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5.