Location
In line with the small but perfectly formed Octavia Court, Inverclyde is one of Scotland’s smallest
council areas with 61 square miles stretching along the Clyde estuary. The Burgh of Greenock, just
25 miles west of Glasgow, was originally a small fishing village, but has reinvented itself down through
the centuries. The Industrial Revolution witnessed the rapid expansion of the town’s harbour, with shipbuilding, paper, pottery, glass, barrel making and sugar refining, all in the ascendant. Among Greenock’s illustrious sons, is the engineer and inventor James Watt. For inventors of the future, the
town offers a range of pre-school, primary, secondary and higher education, including Greenock Academy and James Watt College. With the decline of heavy industry, Greenock is now reborn as of
the largest centres for high technology and modern communications media in Europe.

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