GREENOCK, head-stream of Ayr river, Ayrshire.

GREENOCK (UPPER), railway station in southern outskirts of Greenock.

GREENRIDGE, coal-field in Whitburn parish, Linlithgowshire.

GREENRIVER, seat in Hobkirk parish, Roxburgh shire.

GREENS, place, 7 miles east of Turriff, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Turriff.

GREENSIDE, parish in east of New Town, Edinburgh. Pop., quoad civilia, 5993 ; quoad sacra, 4092.

GREENSIDE, place in Stonehouse parish, Lanarkshire. It has a public school with about 127 scholars.

GREENSIDE, place in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. It has a public school with about 112 scholars.

GREENSKAINS, estate in Gamrie parish, Banffshire.

GREENSTONE, headland on north side of Loch Ewe, west coast of Ross-shire.

GREENTABLE, hill in north-east of Loth parish, Sutherland.

GREENYARD.

GREENYARDS, coal-field in St. Ninian's parish, Stirlingshire.

GREETO, affluent of Gogo rivulet, Largs parish, Ayrshire.

GREGG, affluent of the Stinchar, Ayrshire.

GREGGARY, coast-cliff in Portpatrick parish, Wigtonshire.

GREGNESS, headland on south side of Nigg Bay, Kincardineshire.

GREGORY, quondam baronial castle in St. Vigeans parish, Forfarshire.

GREINORD, sea-loch and district on west coast of Ross-shire. The loch is intermediate between Loch Broom and Loch Ewe ; measures 6J miles across the entrance ; penetrates 7 miles south-south-eastward ; contains in its mouth an island 1J mile long; has, in its upper part, a half-moon form ; and receives there a rivulet, descending 10 miles north-west-ward along a mountain glen. The district lies around the sea-loch, and may be roughly defined as extending south-east-ward to the rivulet's source, and south-westward from Little Broom to Loch Ewe.

GREMISTA, seat in Lerwick parish, Shetland.

GRENNAN, small bay and hill in Kirkmaiden parish, Wigtonshire.

GRESS, coast district, with seat, cavern, rivulet, cairn, and site of old chapel, 7 miles north-north-east of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. The cavern is partly stalactitic, and more than 600 feet long.

GRESSALLACH, bay on east coast of Harris, Outer Hebrides.

GRETNA, parish, containing Springfield village, and Gretna Green, Old Gretna, Rigg of Gretna, and Brewhouses ham-lets, on south-east border of Dumfriesshire. It has a post office of its own name, with money order department, under Carlisle ; it adjoins Gretna railway station, and contains Gretna Green railway station ; and it is separated by the rivulet Sark and the Solway Firth from England. Its length is 6 J miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles; its area 7863 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 9345. Pop. 1212. The surface is mostly level, but has some slight rising-grounds, and includes a hill about 250 feet high, commanding an extensive view. Gretna Green hamlet is suburban to Springfield; Old Gretna lies on Kirtle rivulet, about J mile from the Solway ; Rigg of Gretna lies also on the Kirtle, 5 furlongs from Old Gretna; and Brewhouses is a tiny port on the Solway. The antiquities are a vestige of an ancient Caledonian stone circle, and sites of several strong Border peels ; and a great reminiscence is that of celebration of marriages between runaways from England. The churches are Established and United Presbyterian; and the schools are 2 new public ones for 251 scholars.

GREYFRIARS, quoad sacra parish, with Established and Free churches, in Aberdeen. Pop. 6387.

GREYFRIARS, Dumfries.

GREYFRIARS (NEW and OLD), two parishes in Old Town, Edinburgh. Pop. 3037 and 2371.

GREYHEAD, headland in Canisbay parish, Caithness.

GREYHOPE, small bay in Nigg parish, Kincardineshire.

GREY-MAKE'S-TAIL, precipitous fall of 350 feet, on stream issuing from Loch Skene, 8 miles north-east of Moffat, Dumfriesshire.