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to the east of Greenock and was previously a burgh in the county of Renfrewshire. Originally a fishing hamlet named Newark, Port Glasgow came about as...

Greenock and Port Glasgow was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 until 1997, electing one...

Renfrewshire, and forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east. The 2011 UK Census showed that Greenock had a population...

burghs of Greenock, Port Glasgow and Gourock, and the former fifth district of the county. Its landward area is bordered by the Kelly, North and South Routen...

votes. He served as Member of Parliament for Greenock and Port Glasgow from 1983 to 1997, and for Greenock and Inverclyde from 1997 to 2001. From 1988 to...

created from parts of two predecessor constituencies, Greenock and Port Glasgow and Renfrew West and Inverclyde. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus...

there have been major yards at Greenock and Port Glasgow; smaller yards at Irvine, Ardrossan, Troon, and Campbeltown; and various other boatyards, including...

commerce noted as being Greenock and Port Glasgow. Shipping continues in Greenock at the Ocean Terminal docks. Greenock's ports remain active today with...

The Greenock Telegraph is a local daily newspaper serving Inverclyde (the council area containing the towns of Gourock, Greenock and Port Glasgow), Scotland...

(Bradford West) - joined on 19 March 1981 Dr. Dickson Mabon (Greenock and Port Glasgow) - joined on 1 October 1981 Bryan Magee (Leyton) - resigned Lab...

Mabon, Greenock, 1959–1974; Greenock and Port Glasgow 1974 (February)-1983 George Machin, Dundee East, 1973-1974 Justin Madders, Ellesmere Port and Neston...

The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (GP&GR) was an early Scottish railway, opened in 1841, providing train services between Greenock and Glasgow. At...

from 1832 until 1974, when it was abolished and its area was merged into the new Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency. The boundaries of the constituency...

Bishopton, Bridge of Weir and Langbank and the Houston and Crosslee portion of Houston, Crosslee and Linwood from the Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency...

Renfrewshire, West Renfrewshire, Paisley and Greenock. Greenock was enlarged and renamed Greenock and Port Glasgow in 1974. From 1885, the constituency consisted...

The majority of these slaving voyages left from Glasgow's satellite ports, Greenock and Port Glasgow. After the Acts of Union in 1707, Scotland gained...

Paisley and Greenock Railway on 31 March 1841, and initially ran from Bridge Street railway station in Glasgow to a terminus at Cathcart Street, Greenock (later...

Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 46. ISBN 0900178000. John T. Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning, Ethnopolitics...

The Greenock and Ayrshire Railway ran from Greenock, Scotland to Bridge of Weir, connecting there to the Glasgow and South Western Railway and making a...

Geoffrey (27 April 1983). "Go for June election, agents urge Thatcher". The Glasgow Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 11 July 2020. White, Michael (11 April 2005), "Michael...