Gourock

Gourock, a watering-place of Renfrewshire, on the Firth of Clyde, 3 miles WNW. of Greenock by a railway opened in 1889, since which time it has become the starting-point of several lines of steamers. At Kempoch Point here, behind which rises Barrhill (478 feet), stands 'Granny Kempoch,' a prehistoric monolith associated with the witches of Renfrewshire (1662). In 1688 the first red herring ever cured in Great Britain was cured at Gourock. Pop. (1841) 2169; (1891) 4471. See D. Macrae's Notes about Gourock (1880).