Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park tel 01475 521 458 Greenock Cut Centre Opening Hours Visitor Centre Café April – September The Park for People Weekends only 11am – 4pm Greenock Cut Visitor Centre Trails Open every day all year. Enjoy a healthy family fun day out or exciting outdoor activities in Scotland's largest The Greenock Cut Walk Toilets Open daily. Regional Park. From high heather moors Cornalees Bridge and woodland glens to freshwater lochs and near Inverkip coastal shores the Park has something for PA16 9LX everyone. tel 01475 521 458 Our friendly staff are more than happy to answer any questions you might have about access to the countryside. Dogs can harm wildlife Events & Activities Keep them under proper control to minimise There is lots going on, look out for our disturbance to wildlife, livestock and other ‘What’s On’ guides or online. users. Other Park Sites . 12km Circular Walk Footprints only Castle Semple Centre Muirshiel Centre in Lochwinnoch is popular near Lochwinnoch The narrow path is on a Scheduled . Scheduled Monument Monument and is therefore not suitable for for lochshore and provides easy access to woodland walks, coffee, ‘great walking country’ horse riding or motorised vehicles outdoor activity courses including the family friendly . Fantastic Views plus bike hire. ‘Windy Hill’. Wildlife Watching Lochlip Road PA12 4EA Calder Glen PA12 4LB tel 01505 842 882 tel 01505 842 803 . Access from Cornalees In spring, listen for the cry of the curlew and Lunderston Bay Barnbrock tel 01505 614 791 the skylark song. Watch out for a passing near Gourock has a sandy is 4 miles south of . Free Car Parking ravens or hen harriers hunting low over the beach, a coastal walk and a Kilmacolm with picnic site moorland. children’s play area. and group use camp area. Exhibition in Visitor Centre Look out for sundew and butterwort, Cloch Road PA16 9LX Nr Kilbarchan PA10 2PZ tel 01475 521 458 tel 01505 614 791 these plants trap and digest insects on their sticky leaves to survive on poor soil. Look out for Tiger Beetles. 0616 Muirshiel Centre The Story of The Cut Greenock . The Greenock Cut is a 6.5 km aqueduct. It carried water from the Great Reservoir (Loch Thom) to the town of Greenock. Greenock Cut Walk th . During the 19 century The Cut supplied The recommended route for this the people of Greenock with drinking circular walk is anti-clockwise. water and the industries (woollen & The total distance is 12 km. paper mills, foundries) with water power. Start on the Overton track and . It was built in 1825 - 1827 by Robert finish on The Cut. This way, Thom a civil engineer, who designed a the views of the Clyde, similar scheme at Rothesay, with teams Cowal and Greenock are of contractors and labourers. fantastic on a clear day. Excavation and the building of 23 bridges over the Cut took 15 months. The 2 bothies on the side of the Cut provided very basic accommodation for Overton Track the men who kept the Cut free of ice & snow. The Kelly Cut is another 19th century aqueduct, it carried water to Loch Thom. The Cut was used until 1971, it was superseded by a tunnel and designated a Scheduled Monument in 1972. Greenock Cut . A £1 million Heritage Lottery Funded restoration and access improvement project was completed in 2007. View the Greenock Cut Exhibition in the Greenock Cut Visitor Centre for the full story. © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved Renfrewshire Council LA09044L 2007 .