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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Inverkip. You may be able to find further references to Inverkip in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Innerkip | a village and a coast parish | Groome |
| Inverkip (or Innerkip) | coastal parish and village with railway station | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Inverkip.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ardgowan | a mansion | Groome |
| Ashton | SW. part of town | Bartholomew |
| Ashton | the south-western part of Gourock village | Groome |
| Castle Wemyss | a mansion | Groome |
| Castle Wemyss | seat | Bartholomew |
| Cloch | a small headland | Groome |
| Cloch Point | headland | Bartholomew |
| Dunrod | ancient barony | Bartholomew |
| Dunrod | an ancient barony | Groome |
| Gourock | a watering-place | Groome |
| Kelly House | a plain, white mansion, with beautiful pleasure-grounds | Groome |
| Kelly House | seat | Bartholomew |
| Langhouse | seat | Bartholomew |
| Langhouse | an estate, with a mansion | Groome |
| Leven | the name of an old ruined castle and also of a modern mansion | Groome |
| Leven Castle | seat | Bartholomew |
| Ravenscraig | railway station | Bartholomew |
| Ravenscraig | a station | Groome |
| Wemyss Bay | small watering-place with railway station and steamboat pier | Bartholomew |
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Ardgowan | 0 | 2 |
| Dunrod | 0 | 2 |
| Skelmorlie | 1 | 2 |
| Dunoon | 0 | 3 |
| Ashton | 0 | 2 |
| Inellan | 0 | 2 |
| Gourock | 0 | 2 |
| Clyde | 18 | 2 |
| Greenock | 21 | 3 |
| Strone | 0 | 2 |
| Kilcreggan | 0 | 2 |
| Sandbank | 0 | 2 |
| Blairmore | 0 | 2 |
| Kilmun | 0 | 2 |
| Cove | 0 | 2 |
| Port Glasgow | 7 | 4 |
| Rosneath | 2 | 2 |
| Newark | 0 | 2 |
| Largs | 2 | 2 |
| Clynder | 0 | 2 |
The following appear as names for Inverkip. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
| Name | Author | Source |
|---|---|---|
| INNERKIP | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
| F.H. Groome | Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4). | |
| INVERKIP | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
| INVERKIP OR INNERKIP | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers: