Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Largs. You may be able to find further references to Largs in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Largs	a police burgh and parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Largs.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brisbane	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Calder	a rivulet	Groome
Curling Hall	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Gogo Water	stream	Bartholomew
Gogo Water	a burn	Groome
Greeto Water	affluent	Bartholomew
Kelburn Castle	old baronial residence, with finely wooded park	Bartholomew
Kelburne Castle	a seat	Groome
Knock Castle	renovated baronial fortalice	Bartholomew
Knock Castle	a mansion	Groome
Netherhall	seat	Bartholomew
Quarter	seat	Bartholomew
Quarter	a mansion	Groome
Routenburn House	a mansion	Groome
Routenburn House	seat	Bartholomew
Skelmorlie	coastal village	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Largs within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Fairlie	0	2
Cumbrae	0	3
Millport	0	2
Hunterston	0	2
Skelmorlie	0	2
Mountstuart	0	2
Little Cumbrae	0	2
Ascog	0	2
Kilchattan	0	2
Kingarth	0	2
West Kilbride	0	3
Inellan	0	2
Kilbirnie	0	2
Rothesay	3	2
Inverkip	0	2
Dalry	0	2
Ardgowan	0	2
Glengarnock	0	2
Dunrod	0	2
Bute	0	2