GREENFIELD, place, with railway station and large public school, on north-west border of Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.

GREENFIELD, suburb of Govan, Lanarkshire. Ithasa United Presbyterian church.

GREENFIELD, land and lake in Eaglesham parish, Renfrewshire.

GREENFOOT, hamlet in Sorn parish, Ayrshire.

GREENGAIRS, village in New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. It has a chapel-of-ease, built in 1876, and a Free church. Pop. 798.

GREENHALL, seat in Blantyre parish, Lanarkshire.

GREENHEAD, quoad sacra parish in Calton, Glasgow. It was constituted in 1875, and it contains an Established church and a United Presbyterian church. Pop. 4978.

GREENHILL, village, with railway junction station, 15^ miles east-north-east of Glasgow. Pop. 243.

GREENHILL, village in Lochmaben parish, Dumfriesshire.

GREENHILL, seat near Eutherglen, Lanarkshire.

GREENHILL, coal-field in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.

GREENHILL, seat in Hounam parish, Roxburgh shire.

GREENHILL, mountain in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.

GREENHILL, wooded eminence in Deskford parish, Banffshire.

GREENHILL, hill in Rescobie parish, Forfarshire.

GREENHOLM, suburb of Newmilns, Ayrshire.

GREENHOLM, islet, 1J mile south-west of Eday, Orkney.

GREENHOLM (LITTLE and MEIKLE), two islets in Eday parish, Orkney.

GREENKNOWE, hamlet in Annan parish, Dumfriesshire. It has a quoad sacra parochial church, and a public school with about 125 scholars.

GREENKNOWE, large, oval, artificial, ancient mound, in Culter parish, Lanarkshire.

GREENKNOWE, dilapidated old tower, once the seat of the Covenanter Pringle, in Gordon parish, Berwickshire.

GREENLAND, hamlet and hill in Dunnet parish, Caithness. The hamlet has a post office under Wick, and a public school with about 52 scholars ; and the hill is crowned with an ancient tumulus.

GREENLAW, town and parish in Berwickshire. The town stands on Blackadder river, 1\ miles south-south-west of Dunse ; succeeded an extinct ancient town of its own name on a round green hill about a mile to the south; was the capital of Berwickshire from 1696 till 1853, and still shares that status with Dunse ; comprises a large market square and divergent short streets ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Berwickshire, a railway station, a banking office, 2 good inns, a handsome modern county hall, a modern county jail, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Episcopalian churches, and a public school with about 108 scholars. Pop. 744. The parish measures 8 miles by 4, and comprises 12,149 acres. Real property in 1880-31, 13,075. Pop. 1245. The surface in the north is moorish and heathy, but elsewhere is mostly level and fertile. The seats are Lambden, Rowchester, and Old Greenlaw ; and the antiquities are several cairns, remains of a camp, and sites of two religious houses.

GREENLAW, place, If mile north-by-east of Penicuick, Edinburghshire. It was originally an old mansion, transmuted in 1804 into a depot for French prisoners of war ; it underwent great extension in 1813 for the same purpose, at a cost of about 100,000; and it was enlarged in 1875, by erection of a new suite of barracks, to serve as the centre depot of the south-east brigade district of Scotland.

GREENLAW, seat in Abbey-Paisley parish, Renfrewshire.

GREENLAW, seat in Crossmichael parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

GREENLAW, hill in Insch parish, Aberdeenshire.

GREENLOANING, village, 6 miles north-east of Dunblane, Perthshire. It has a railway station, an inn, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 54 scholars.

GREENMILL, village, with parochial church, in Caerlaverock parish, Dumfriesshire.

GREENOCK, town and three parishes on Firth of Clyde, in north-west of Renfrewshire. The town stands opposite Helensburgh, 5 miles east of the firth's sudden bend from west to south, and 21 by water, but 22J by railway, west-north-west of Glasgow. It ranks as a head port, a seat of manufacture, a tourists' centre, a seat of sheriff courts, and a burgh sending a member to Parliament. It sprang from two fishing villages of the 17th century, the one on ground near its present centre, the other on ground in its present eastern suburb ; it acquired some note by construction of an artificial harbour in 1733-34, at a cost of about 5000; it ranked, at beginning of present century, as the greatest port in Scotland ; it suffered severely from the deepening of the Clyde up to Glasgow, with result of transferring much of its commerce to that city, but afterwards acquired compensating advantages; and it now has quays and docks to the length of nearly 2 miles, and extends backward from them with a mean breadth of about 2 furlongs. Its site is partly a belt of plain along the shore, partl a series of entle diverse acclivities, overhung in near distances by a vale-cloven hill-ridge, with summits from 804 to 995 feet high ; and it commands, from multitudes of standpoints, one of the grandest views in Great Britain. The central parts j comprise an open square, a number of well-built streets, and some pleasant out-skirts; the western parts comprise numerous airy, modern, handsome streets, terraces, and lines of villas ; and the eastern parts are mostly close, plain, and squalid. Lyle Road, from Finnart Street round and over Binnans Hill to Gourock toll, was opened in May 1880, cost 13,000, is nearly 2 miles long, and commands a series of gorgeous views. The town has a head post office with all departments, 5 sub post offices with each a money order department, 4 railway stations, 7 banking offices, 3 sub banking offices, 5 hotels, a number of imposing civil public buildings, 10 Established churches, 10 Free churches, 7 United Presbyterian churches, 1 Reformed Presbyterian, 2 Congregational, 1 Evangelical Union, 1 Baptist, 1 Wesleyan Methodist, 1 Primitive Methodist, 1 Episcopalian, and 2 Roman Catholic, an academy with accommodation for 1086 scholars, 46 other schools with accommodation for 8307 scholars, a large public library, a mechanics' institution, an infirmary, and a number of miscellaneous institutions. Two public parks of 4 and 8 acres are in the southern outskirts ; Garvel Park, purchased by the Harbour Trustees in 1867 for 80,964, is in the extreme east ; and a modern ultra-mural ornamental cemetery, comprising 22 acres, is on high ground in the south-western outskirts, contains a number of handsome monuments, and is intended to be crowned with a monument to James Watt, 225 feet high, terminating in an observatory and a time-ball. The water-works draw from reservoirs among the hills from 2J to 3J miles south of the town ; were constructed in 1827, at a cost of 90,000; and send down a perennial stream of such volume as, in the course of its descent, drives the machinery of a number of mills and factories. A tramway system traverses the principal streets, and is prolonged to Gourock. The town carries on extensive manufacture in numerous departments ; is noted especially for sugar-refining and shipbuilding ; conducts commerce chiefly with North and South America and with the East Indies; and publishes 2 newspapers daily and 1 weekly. The New Municipal Buildings were projected near the end of 1879, to cost about 80,000 ; to stand in the centre of the town with frontages to four thoroughfares ; to be in the renaissance style, after the manner of the Louvre in Paris ; and to have, on their principal frontage, a massive dome-capped tower, 245 feet high; and they were founded in August 1881. The Exchange Buildings, a little east of the New Municipal, were erected in 1814 at a cost of 7000. The Custom House, facing a broad esplanade, at upper steamboat quay, was erected in 1818 at a cost of 30,000, and is a large edifice with fine Grecian portico. The Middle and the West Established churches are spacious edifices of 1757 and 1840, with lofty steeples of 1787 and 1854. Another of the Established churches was erected since 1877. The Middle Free church was erected in 1871, at a cost of about 16,000, and has a steeple fully 200 feet high. Another of the Free churches is a loftily-steepled edifice of 1855; and another was erected in 1880, at a cost of about 9000. Three United Presbyterian churches are hand-some structures of 1834, 1854, and 1871 ; and another was founded in 1881 in lieu of one utterly destroyed by fire. One of the Congregational churches is a neat building of 1840, enlarged and improved in 1880-81. The Baptist church was erected in 1878 at a cost of 5000. The Episcopalian church was erected in 1878, occupies the site of a previous church, and cost about 10,000. The Academy was erected in 1855, and is in the old monastic style. Four public schools were erected in 1876-78 ; and 2 of them, for 1350 scholars, cost 16,680. The Roman Catholic schools were founded in 1877, and estimated to cost 6000. The Watt Monument, containing Greenock Library, was erected in 1837 at a cost of 3000; and the Watt Museum and Lecture Hall stand behind it, and were erected in 1876 at a cost of 6400. Wood's Hospital for disabled seamen was erected in 1851 at a cost of 10,000, out of a bequest of 140,000, and is in the Tudor style. The Parochial Board Offices were projected in 1877, and estimated to cost about 8000. The Poors' Asylum, a little south of the town, was erected in 1876-79, at a cost of more than 100,000, and is in the old Scottish baronial style. Baths were sanctioned in 1880, to include re-creation grounds and gymnasium, and were expected to cost about 5500. The harbour comprises all kinds of works and appliances suited to a first-class port ; it had, prior to 1870, an aggregate berthage of about 11,240 feet ; and it acquired, after that year, new works in the west, on ground purchased for 80,000, and extensive works in the east, including a graving dock and the James Watt wet dock. The graving dock there was formed at a cost of 53,047, and opened in 1874. The James Watt wet dock was begun to be formed in 1878, at estimated cost of 243,259, exclusive of accessories to cost probably 100,000 ; measures 2000 feet in length and 300 feet in breadth ; has a jetty 1000 feet long in its centre, and a quayage of 7200 feet ; and is adjoined by a tidal harbour with a quayage of ] 054 feet. The Harbour Trustees promoted a bill in the session of 1879-80 for powers to construct new works, and to borrow 1,300,000. The vessels belonging to the port, at end of 1879, were 365 sailing vessels of 171,214 tons, and 72 steam vessels of 34,801 tons. The vessels which entered in 1879 were 6881 British of 1,293,193 tons, and 189 foreign of 85,568 tons ; and those which cleared were 4794 British of 675,485 tons, and 153 foreign of 69,104 tons. Keal property of the burgh in 1880-81, 369,431. Pop. in 1871, 57,146 ; in 1881, 64,722. The parishes are East, Middle, and West ; they are treated in many respects as one ; and they contain Fort-Matilda and a suburb of Port-Glasgow. Their length along the coast is 4f miles ; their greatest breadth nearly 3 miles ; their area6021 acres. Eeal property in 1880-81 of landward parts, 38,054. Pop. of the East, 21,611 ; of the Middle, 6180 ; of the West, 40,627. The quoad sacra parishes of North, South, Cartsburn, and Gaelic are included. Pop., quoad sacra, of the East, 7382 ; of the Middle, 6180 ; of the North, 1300 ; of the South, 10,319; of the West, 28,861. The shore is low and sandy ; the immediate seaboard, or belt contiguous to the shore, is low and flat ; the western section inward from that belt is Binnan's Hill, rising gradually to a high, bold, abrupt face overhanging Fort-Matilda ; the tract immediately south-west of the town is a fine hill-girt vale, traversed by road and railway toward Innerkip ; the tract from that vale to the eastern boundary is a hill-group or hill-ridge, with summits from 804 to 995 feet high ; and the south-eastern section is high moorland, with sources of Gryfe river. Sandstone and trap rock are quarried.