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An important industrial and ship building port on the Clyde estuary, much damaged by bombs in the Second World War.
The birthplace of James Watt, in 1736, the famous inventor of the steam engine. His statue stands in the Watt Library.
A huge Cross of Lorraine stands on Lyle Hill, above the town and commemorates the Free French sailors who died in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.
Greenock (Grianaig) diminutive of grianag, a sunny knoll
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- Landmark