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| Inverclyde Sports Centre - Sport Scotland's National Training Centre. | |
| Scottish Sailing Institute - Scotland's National event and Training Centre. | |
| Ferry - Terminal for ferry to Isle of Cumbrae (Millport) | |
| The Battle of Largs, 1263, was the last battle on mainland Scotland against the Norsemen! | |
| Kelburn Castle, just south of Largs, is one of the oldest Scottish houses continuously occupied by the same family. The grounds are open to the public as a Country Centre with Walled gardens. | |
| Brisbane, state capital of Queensland, Australia was named after, Sir Thomas MacDougall Brisbane, Soldier and Astronomer, born in 1773 in Largs in Scotland. He built three pillars known as the Three Sisters in Waterside Street, Largs, that helped him find where due North was from his observatory. | |
| Lord Kelvin, Physicist, lived in Netherhall in Largs. He was knighted in 1866, and created a peer, Baron Kelvin of Largs, in 1892. | |
| Golf's Ryder Cup Captain Sam Torrance was born in Largs. |
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