Inverkip
Inverkip is a village in Inverclyde, the western part of Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland, best known for its large marina. In 2022 its population was 3500.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,060 residents
- Description: village in Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Inbhir Chip”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Inverkip railway station and Ardgowan Castle.
Inverkip railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY 4.0.
Inverkip railway station serves the village of Inverkip, Inverclyde, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Inverclyde Line, located 28+3⁄4 miles west of Glasgow Central.
Ardgowan Castle
Ruins
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ardgowan Castle, originally called Inverkip Castle, is located in the Private Garden of "Ardgowan House, Castle & Gardens" near Inverkip, Scotland. It is near the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde, in the former county of Renfrewshire.
Lunderston Bay
Park
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lunderston Bay is located on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde, by the A770 road approximately midway between the town of Gourock and the village of Inverkip.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wemyss Bay and Skelmorlie.
Wemyss Bay
Village
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Wemyss Bay is a village on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the traditional county of Renfrewshire. Wemyss Bay is situated 2½ miles south of Inverkip.
Skelmorlie
Village
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skelmorlie is a village in North Ayrshire in the southwest of Scotland. Although it is the northernmost settlement in the council area of North Ayrshire it is contiguous with Wemyss Bay, which is in Inverclyde, and has a PA zone postcode unlike the rest of Ayrshire which is in the KA zone. Skelmorlie is situated 2½ miles south of Inverkip.
Braeside
Suburb
Braeside is a neighbourhood situated on the far west side of Greenock, in Inverclyde, Scotland. It has one primary schools in its vicinity, Aileymill, a high school Inverclyde Academy and used to have a special needs school for handicapped children, Glenburn… Braeside is situated 2½ miles northeast of Inverkip.
Inverkip
- Category: locality
- Location: Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.909° or 55° 54′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.8651° or 4° 51′ 54″ westPopulation
3,060Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB IVKOpen location code
9C7QW45M+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 32689394OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Inverkip” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Inverkip”
- Bulgarian: “Инверкип”
- Catalan: “Inverkip”
- Cebuano: “Inverkip”
- Dutch: “Inverkip”
- French: “Inverkip”
- German: “Inverkip”
- Irish: “Inbhir Chip”
- Italian: “Inverkip”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Inverkip”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Inverkip”
- Norwegian: “Inverkip”
- Persian: “اینورکیپ”
- Polish: “Inverkip”
- Portuguese: “Inverkip”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Chip”
- Slovenian: “Inverkip”
- Spanish: “Inverkip”
- Swedish: “Inverkip”
- Welsh: “Inverkip”
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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 “Inverkip”. Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 3.0.