Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park tel 01475 521 458 Greenock Cut Visitors Centre Cornalees, near Inverkip Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park Greenock Cut PA16 9LX tel 01475 521 458 Visitor Centre The Kelly Cut is open everyday all year. "The Green Great Escape" Enjoy a healthy family fun day out Greenock Cut Visitor Centre is open: or exciting outdoor activities in The Kelly Weekdays Weekends Scotland's largest Regional Park. Apr - Oct 11:00 – 16:00 11:00 - 16:00 From high heather moors and woodland glens Nov - Mar Closed 11:00 - 15:00 to freshwater lochs and coastal shores the Cut Walk Park has something for everyone. Dogs can harm wildlife Our friendly Rangers are Keep them under proper control to more than happy to answer any questions you might have minimise disturbance to wildlife, about access to the countryside. livestock and other users. Events & Activities Footprints only please There is lots going on, look out for our ‘What’s On’ guide The Kelly Cut path is for pedestrians and posters or look on our website. and cyclists. It is not suitable for Other Park Sites: motor vehicles. Castle Semple Centre tel 01505 842 882 in Lochwinnoch is popular for lochshore . A 9.6 km Linear Walk Wildlife Watching and woodland walks, coffee, outdoor activity courses plus boat and bike hire. In spring time listen out for the . Historic Feature Muirshiel Centre tel 01505 842 803 cry of the curlew, and the near Lochwinnoch provides ‘great walking . Fantastic moorland views skylark’s song. country’ plus CCTV images of Hen Harriers during the breeding season. Access from Greenock Cut Watch out for passing ravens or hen harriers Lunderston Bay tel 01475 521 458 Visitor Centre hunting low over the moorland. near Gourock has a sandy beach, a coastal walk and a children’s play area. Lots of free Car Parking Look out for sundew and butterwort. Barnbrock tel 01505 614 791 Plants which trap and digest insects on is 4 miles south of Kilmacolm with Park HQ and rural campsite. tel 01475 521 458 their sticky leaves to survive on poor 0413 www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk e [email protected] soil. Beware the Tiger Beetles. Muirshiel Centre Why the name the ‘Kelly Cut’? The Kelly Cut Walk th . Late in the 15 Century, James III granted TheC Kelly Cut is 6.5 km (4 miles) in the lands of Kelly to the Bannatyne family, length,C giving a return walk of 13 km (8 who went on to hold this land for miles) or a 9.6 km (6 mile) linear walk almost 300 years. from the Greenock Cut Visitor Centre to the railway station at Wemyss Bay. They built the original Kelly Views overlook the Clyde towards Dunoon Castle next to the Kelly Burn, Kelly Cut and the Argyll mountains and the Isles of it was destroyed by fire in by Betty McKellar Bute and Arran. Above the Cornalees, against the sky– 1740 and was never rebuilt. a paraglider balanced on a crag; Habitat Native broadleaved woodlands . The Kelly aqueduct (or Cut) he leans out into space and lays himself upon the breathing of the wind so that flank the Kip Water in Shielhill Glen. Scrub was built in 1845, to he drifts over the frozen waters of birch woods lead to open heather moorland for much of the walk. Loch Thom towards the ancient Celtic lands supplement the water of Kelly and the silvered sea of the Clyde. supply for the Greenock Cut. Silence is his music. Peat Large areas of peat overlay old lava He glides to its rhythms flows up to 1km thick. Scottish peat is a . It has an elevation of 500 ft flying with the buzzard massive carbon store, holding up to 90% of like a great blue bird of happiness above sea level. all carbon stored in soils, plants and forests into the softened face of winter in the UK. A hectare of active peat bog for sunlight suffuses the powdered hills with gold and illuminates Blood Moss also stores 250kg of carbon every year. to glowing copper red. Conservation and enhancement of He sees the Earth has healed her wounds – peatlands is a major action to combat the reservoirs her jewels now, climate change. the cuts a shine of inlaid metal thread. Stone dykes hang like necklaces around her shoulders where summer stonechats chatter and the roe deer stray; birch and rowan trees dress the empty hallows in winter grey. And tiny people walk her pathways far below him listening, listening to the music of the silence, watching a blue bird of happiness soaring above their heads. © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved Renfrewshire www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk Council 100023417 .