Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park tel 01475 521 458 Greenock Cut Visitors Centre Greenock Cut Cornalees, near Inverkip Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park PA16 9LX tel 01475 521 458 Visitor Centre The Greenock 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 Greenock 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. Our friendly Rangers are Dogs can harm wildlife more than happy to answer Keep them under proper control to any questions you might have minimise disturbance to wildlife, about access to the countryside. livestock and other users. Events & Activities There is lots going on, look Footprints only please out for our ‘What’s On’ guide and posters or look on our website. The path on the Scheduled Ancient Monument is for pedestrian use and Other Park Sites: is not suitable for horse riding or Castle Semple Centre tel 01505 842 882 . A 10.5 km Circular Walk in Lochwinnoch is popular for lochshore motor vehicles. and woodland walks, coffee, outdoor . Ancient Monument activity courses plus boat and bike hire. Wildlife Watching Muirshiel Centre tel 01505 842 803 . Fantastic Views near Lochwinnoch provides ‘great walking On the moorland in springtime, country’ plus CCTV images of Hen . Starts at the Greenock Cut birds to listen for include cuckoo Harriers during the breeding season. Visitor Centre and skylark. Watch out for a Lunderston Bay tel 01475 521 458 near Gourock has a sandy beach, a coastal . Lots of free Car Parking passing bird of prey. walk and a children’s play area. Barnbrock tel 01505 614 791 In summer and autumn, dragonflies is 4 miles south of Kilmacolm with Park tel 01475 521 458 patrol the skies above the Cut. HQ and rural campsite. www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk 0413 e [email protected] Muirshiel Centre whs The Story of The Cut The Greenock Cut Walk . The Greenock Cut is Allow 3 to 5 hours for this 10.5km circular a 6.5 km aqueduct. walk , graded moderate/difficult. The recommended route for the walk is . It carried water from the Great Reservoir anti -clockwise, start on the (Loch Thom) to the town of Greenock. Overton track and finish on th . During the 19 century The Cut supplied The Cut. This way, the views of the Clyde, the people of Greenock with drinking Cowal Peninsula water and the local industries (woollen & and Greenock are much paper mills, foundries) with water power. better on a . It was built between 1825 - 1827 by Robert clear Thom a civil engineer, who designed a day . similar scheme at Rothesay. There are 23 bridges along the Cut. The 2 bothies along the Cut provided very basic accommodation for the men who kept the Cut free of ice & snow. The Cut was used until 1971 when it was superseded by a tunnel and designated an Ancient Monument in 1972. A £1 million Heritage Lottery Funded restoration and access improvement project was completed in 2007. View the Greenock Cut Exhibition in the Visitor Centre for the full story. Crown Copyright. All rights reserved Renfrewshire council LA09044L 2007 www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk .