Gourock
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Gourock railway station and Fort Matilda railway station.
Gourock railway station
Railway station
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Gourock railway station is a terminus of the Inverclyde Line, located at Gourock pierhead, Scotland. It was originally closely integrated with an extensive clyde steamer pier as well as serving the coastal resort town.
Fort Matilda railway station
Railway station
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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.
Granny Kempock Stone
Archaeological site
The megalithic Kempock Stone, popularly known as Granny Kempock, stands on a cliff behind Kempock Street, the main shopping street in Gourock, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilcreggan and Greenock.
Kilcreggan
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilcreggan is a village in Argyll and Bute, on the tip of the Rosneath peninsula. To the east of the peninsula is Gare Loch, west is Loch Long, and south is the Firth of Clyde.
Greenock
Photo: Wildstoo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenock is a port on the Clyde estuary, with a population of 41,000 in 2020. Historically it was part of Renfrewshire but is now within Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland.
Fort Matilda
Suburb
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
Gourock
- Type: Town with 10,300 residents
- Description: town in Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.962° or 55° 57′ 43″ northLongitude
-4.8179° or 4° 49′ 4″ westPopulation
10,300Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GUROpen location code
9C7QX56J+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 265366400OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Gourock” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gourock”
- Basque: “Gourock”
- Cebuano: “Gourock”
- Dutch: “Gourock”
- French: “Gourock”
- Irish: “Guireag”
- Irish: “Gurraig”
- Italian: “Gourock”
- Japanese: “ゴウロック”
- Korean: “구락”
- Korean: “구럭”
- Persian: “گوراک”
- Polish: “Gourock”
- Portuguese: “Gourock”
- Russian: “Гурок”
- Scots: “Gourock”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Guireag”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gurraig”
- Spanish: “Gourock”
- Swedish: “Gourock”
- Ukrainian: “Гурок”
- Welsh: “Gourock”
- Welsh: “Gurraig”
- “Gourock - Gurraig”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Gourock”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.