where is greenock?

[rainbowbright]

Hi
Greenock is in Inverclyde. Renfrewshire doesn't go as far down the Clyde as Greenock.
Rainbow

[Skoosh]

Inverclyde is a modern contrivance. Greenock was in Renfrewshire. Glasgow hasn't been in Lanarkshire for about a century when it was made a city/county in its own right. Some parts of Glasgow, including north of the Clyde, were never in Lanarkshire and were formerly in Renfrewshire also.

Skoosh.

[elaine447]

Greenock Port Glasgow and Gourock are part of Inverclyde
but this only came about in the 1970's not sure of exact year (to young to remember)
for example.
Mr Anybody
? main street
Greenock
Renfrewshire
this is the way an address would have been written before the 1970's
 
Mr Anybody
? main street
Greenock
Inverclyde
the way it is written present day,
Elaine

[MonicaL]

Dates and events here www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-Renfrew.htm

Also, here www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/search/gazetteer_freetext_results_3.asp www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/search/gazetteer_searchmembers_4.asp?Placenameid=579

Monica

[weemary]

Mr Anybody
? main street
Greenock
Inverclyde
the way it is written present day,

I still say Renfrewshire instead of Inverclyde -  mail will still get there

[Hibee]

It's in the council area of Inverclyde, in the Lieutenancy of Renfrewshire, in the former region of Strathclyde.

Also just about where the Firth of Clyde begins to think about a sharp left turn.

Hibee