NC Gazetteer

Port Grenvil

Also known as: Greenevills Rode
A waterway in Hyde County
… appears on the White map, 1590, as an inlet through Ocracoke Island a short distance N of the community of Ocracoke, SE Hyde County. Named for Sir Richard Grenville. Appears as "Greenevills Rode" on the Smith map, 1624. There is some doubt that such an inlet actually existed, though it may have been at what is now known as Nigh Inlet, which see.