📌 Town in Inverclyde
★★
Greenock is a sizeable town on the Firth Clyde and the capital of the Inverclyde region. Historically a shipbuilding hub and major port for inbound fish, sugar, rum and wine, it still boasts a large container terminal and boat building continues at nearby Port Glasgow. Industrial towns often don’t make the best tourist destinations, but while Greenock’s unlikely to make the cover page of many tourist brochures, it actually has a decent collection of grand buildings in the spots which escaped WWII bombing – the Italianate Victoria Tower is the highlight, crowning the town hall. Inverclyde council promotes three town walking tours (info below) which are all of interest, and there are two central museums and reasonable everyday shopping. Views across the Clyde are good from the coast road, and stunning from the viewpoint on Lyle Hill, encompassing the nearby (and less interesting) seaside resort of Gourock, the Rosneath Peninsula, Cowal and the high hills of Argyll.
Custom House, Greenock 
Town Hall (left) & Wellpark Mid Kirk (right) 
Town Hall & Men of the Clyde statue 
Wellpark Mid Kirk 
Dutch Gable House 
James Watt statue – Greenock’s most famous son 
Custom House 
The Beacon, Customhouse Quay 
Prospect / Trust statue 
Redeveloped waterfront, Customhouse Quay 
Ginger the Horse statue 
James Watt Wetherspoons pub 
Fountain in Well Park 
War Memorial, Well Park 
Old sugar refinery 
Former St Columba’s Gaelic Church 
The Mount Kirk 
Orangefield Baptist Church 
Sheriff Court 
Greenock West United Reformed Church 
St John’s Episcopal Church 
Tontine Hotel 
Lyle Kirk, Union Street 
Lyle Kirk, Esplanade 
View from the esplanade 
Scottish Fire & Rescue Museum & Heritage Centre 
Lyle Hill viewpoint 
Greenock Cut walk
🌍 Location
📌 Inverclyde
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 277764
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.949959,-4.761018
🚶 The main shopping streets, waterfront and town museums are all quite close to each other. Lyle Hill and our Greenock Cut walk both start about a mile away, uphill. Walking tour leaflets: Greenock Town Trail 🔗 here; Statues Trail 🔗 here; Church Trail 🔗 here
🚢🚆🚌 Greenock is served by trains on the Glasgow to Gourock line, and there are numerous local and regional buses from settlements including Glasgow, Gourock and Largs. Ferries for Dunoon in Argyll depart from Gourock: a couple of miles away and accessible by train or bus.
🚗 Some car parking around the shopping district has a charge.
Explore nearby
<1 mi away
>> McLean Museum (not yet featured)
>> Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Museum and Heritage Centre ★★★
<3 mi away
>> Lyle Hill viewpoint ★★★ (1 mi ←)
>> Walk: Greenock: a Cut above ★★★ (1 mi ↓)
