Inverkip
Sign in to saveInverkip (; ) is a village and parish in the Inverclyde council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland, southwest of Greenock and north of Largs on the A78 trunk road. The town takes its name from the River Kip and is served by Inverkip railway station.
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Place details
- Locality
- Inverkip
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 3,060
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Inverclyde
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Inbhir Chip
- UK place.official_name
- Inverkip
- UK place.static_image_name
- File:Inverkip Main Street.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Inverkip's Main Street
- UK place.static_image_width
- 250px
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Renfrewshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Inverclyde
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Greenock and Inverclyde
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS 20675 71938
- UK place.post_town
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +3490
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Inverkip Main Street.JPG
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Article
32 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- Inverkip Church
- Ardgowan
- Witchcraft and witch hunts
- Shaws water scheme
- Cholera outbreak
- Smuggling
- Railway
- Energy supplies
- World War II
- Housing
- Road transport
- Inverkip Power Station (demolished)
- Population
- Places of interest
- Kip Marina
- Greenock Cut Visitor Centre
- Lunderston Bay
- Inverkip AAOR
- Inverkip Primary School
- Inverkip Community Hub
- Old church graveyard
- Inverkip War Memorial
- Inverkip Yacht Club
- Local businesses
- Accommodation
- Nearby places of interest
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
Inverkip (; ) is a village and parish in the Inverclyde council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland, southwest of Greenock and north of Largs on the A78 trunk road. The town takes its name from the River Kip and is served by Inverkip railway station.
==History== ===Origins=== In 1170 Baldwin de Bigres, Sheriff of Lanark, granted a stretch of land to the monks of Paisley Abbey. This land was described as "The pennyland between the rivulets Kip and Daff". Pennyland is an old Scots word of Norse origin which is used to describe a small piece of land, the rent for which is one penny per year.