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GOUROCK

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 288 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOUROCK , a police
burgh
  and watering-place of
Renfrew
 -shire,
Scotland
 , on the southern shore of the Firth of
Clyde
 , 31, m. W. by N. of Greenock by the Caledonian railway. Pop. (1901) 5261. It is partly situated on a fine bay affording good anchorage, for which it is largely resorted to by the numerous yacht clubs of the
Clyde
 . The extension of the railway from Greenock (in 1889) to the commodious pier, with a tunnel 13 m. long, the longest in
Scotland
 , affords
great
  facilities for travel to the ports of the Firth, the sea lochs on the southern Highland
coast
  and the Crinan Canal. The
eminence
  called Barrhill (48o ft. high) divides the town into two parts, the eastern known as Kempoch, the western as Ashton. Near Kempoch point is a monolith of mica-schist, 6 ft. high, called " Granny Kempoch," which the superstitious of other days regarded as possessing influence over the winds, and which was the scene, in 1662, of certain
rites
  that led to the celebrants being burned as witches. Gamble Institute (named after the founder) contains halls, recreation rooms, a public library and baths. It is said that Gourock was the first place on the Clyde where herrings were cured. There is tramway communication with Greenock and Ashton. About 3 m. S.W. there stands on the shore the
familiar
  beacon of the Cloch. Gourock became a
burgh
  of barony in 1694.


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