Qualla: Inverkip https://qualla.com/inverkip en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Inverkip https://qualla.com/inverkip Inverkip: Introduction https://qualla.com/inverkip/ The monks of Paisley Abbey were granted land here in 1170. By 1188 they had built a small church on the rise where the present old graveyard sits. For four hundred years it served the entire Christian population between Kilmacolm and Largs — which is why, on Sundays, the people of Greenock walked five and a half miles each way over difficult ground to get there. Inverkip was the parish church, and the absence of a road did not change that fact. A burgh of barony before the 1707 Act of Union, the village ran almost everything between the Cowal coast and the Ayrshire boundary.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/w/inverkip-wp/gcuw-inverkip-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inverkip: The Witch Hunts https://qualla.com/inverkip/ For half a century, between 1640 and 1690, Inverkip was a place where people were burned for witchcraft. The two parish ministers of the period — the Reverend John Hamilton and the Reverend Alexander Leslie — were described in contemporary records as zealous persecutors of witche...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/w/inverkip-wp/gcuw-inverkip-the-witch-hunts.mp3 0:06 2 full Inverkip: Smugglers and Cholera https://qualla.com/inverkip/ In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Inverkip was notorious for smuggling. Vessels sailing up the Firth of Clyde to the legitimate ports at Greenock and Port Glasgow could be intercepted offshore, their cargoes of alcohol, tea, and tobacco quietly transferred to local boats...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/w/inverkip-wp/gcuw-inverkip-smugglers-and-cholera.mp3 0:06 3 full Inverkip: Ardgowan and Robert the Bruce https://qualla.com/inverkip/ By the 13th century, a castle had been built where Ardgowan House now stands. The location is genuinely venerable: Robert the Bruce fought here for both sides during the Wars of Independence, depending on the year and which faction was winning at the time. The Stewarts acquired t...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/w/inverkip-wp/gcuw-inverkip-ardgowan-and-robert-the-bruce.mp3 0:06 4 full Inverkip: The Cut and the Power Station https://qualla.com/inverkip/ The Shaws Water scheme, commissioned by Sir Michael Shaw Stewart and designed by the Rothesay industrialist Robert Thom, was completed in 1827. It dammed Shaws Water in the hills behind Inverkip to create Loch Thom, then channelled the water along an aqueduct called the Greenock ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/w/inverkip-wp/gcuw-inverkip-the-cut-and-the-power-station.mp3 0:06 5 full Inverkip: Kip Marina and the Modern Village https://qualla.com/inverkip/ Today Inverkip is best known for Kip Marina, which opened in 1971 as the first marina in Scotland and one of only three in the United Kingdom at the time. It sits at the mouth of the Kip Water, on a basin that the Royal Engineers excavated during the Second World War for barge st...

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