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Greenock, Victoria Harbour

Dock (19th Century)

Site Name Greenock, Victoria Harbour

Classification Dock (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Greenock Harbour; Inner Firth Of Clyde; Inner Clyde Estuary; River Clyde; Clyde Ports

Canmore ID 68395

Site Number NS27NE 28

NGR NS 28605 75818

NGR Description Centred NS 28605 75818

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Inverclyde
  • Parish Greenock
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Inverclyde
  • Former County Renfrewshire

Archaeology Notes

NS27NE 28.00 centred 28605 75818

NS27NE 28.01 NS 2866 7598 Transit Shed.

Not to be confused with East India Harbour (centred NS 2853 7597) or Albert Harbour (centred NS 2781 7681), for which see NT27NE 32 and NT27NE 49 respectively.

East India Harbour [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1993.

Visible on vertical air photography, (OS 88/041/102, flown 1988).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NS 287 759). Victoria Harbour, built 1846-50, engineer Joseph Locke. A rectangular basin formed by a pier shared with the East India Harbour, south and east quays, and two short piers at the seaward side. On the south quay is a single-storey, 3-bay hydraulic pumping station with a 3-storey accumulator tower, now disused. On the north quay is a 1-by-10-bay transit shed. The works are all ashlar.

J R Hume 1976.

Activities

Note (6 June 2017)

This harbour remains in use though the transit shed noted by Hume has been removed.

Information from HES, Survey and Recording (AKK) 2 April 2017.

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