Irvine
Irvine is a town in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast, with a population of 34,130 in 2020. It's post-industrial and is best-known as one of the postwar "New Towns" built across lowland Scotland.Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 33,700 residents
- Description: town in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Irbhinn”, “Irvine, Ayrshire”, “Irvine, North Ayrshire”, and “Irvine, Scotland”
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Irvine railway station and Scottish Maritime Museum.
Irvine railway station
Railway station
Irvine railway station is a railway station serving the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 30 miles south west of Glasgow Central.
Scottish Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
The Scottish Maritime Museum is an industrial museum with a Collection Recognised as Nationally Significant to Scotland. It is located at two sites in the West of Scotland in Irvine and Dumbarton, with a focus on Scotland's shipbuilding heritage.
The Big Idea
Museum
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Big Idea was a science centre located in the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Located on the former Nobel Explosives manufacturing site on the Ardeer Peninsula, a new science and learning centre was planned in 2000 by the Millennium Commission, to celebrate the history of invention and inventors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dreghorn.
Dreghorn
Village
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dreghorn is a village in North Ayrshire, Scotland, 3.5 kilometres east of Irvine town centre, on the old main road from Irvine to Kilmarnock. It is sited on a ridge between two rivers.
Irvine
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.6131° or 55° 36′ 47″ northLongitude
-4.6696° or 4° 40′ 11″ westPopulation
33,700Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB IRVOpen location code
9C7QJ87J+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 3824817957OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Irvine” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Irvine”
- Azerbaijani: “Örvin”
- Basque: “Irvine”
- Bengali: “আরভাইন”
- Breton: “Irbhinn”
- Bulgarian: “Ървайн”
- Bulgarian: “Ървин”
- Catalan: “Irvine”
- Cebuano: “Irvine”
- Chinese: “厄尔文”
- Chinese: “厄爾文”
- Chinese: “歐文”
- Cornish: “Irbhinn”
- Czech: “Irvine”
- Danish: “Irvine”
- Dutch: “Irvine”
- Esperanto: “Irvine”
- French: “Irvine”
- German: “Irvine”
- Gujarati: “ઇર્વિન”
- Hebrew: “ארווין”
- Hungarian: “Irvine (Skócia)”
- Hungarian: “Irvine”
- Irish: “Irbhinn”
- Italian: “Irvine”
- Japanese: “アーバイン”
- Kannada: “ಇರ್ವಿನ್”
- Korean: “어빈”
- Latvian: “Irvina”
- Lithuanian: “Irvinas”
- Manx: “Irbhinn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Irvine”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irvine i Ayrshire”
- Norwegian: “Irvine”
- Persian: “اروین (اسکاتلند)”
- Persian: “اروین”
- Polish: “Irvine”
- Portuguese: “Irvine”
- Russian: “Ирвин”
- Russian: “Эрвин”
- Scots: “Irvin”
- Scots: “Irvine”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Irbhinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Irvine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Irvine, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Irvine”
- Slovak: “Irvine”
- Slovenian: “Irvine”
- South Azerbaijani: “اروین”
- Spanish: “Irvine (Ayrshire)”
- Spanish: “Irvine (Escocia)”
- Spanish: “Irvine”
- Swedish: “Irvine, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Irvine”
- Tamil: “இர்வின்”
- Telugu: “ఇర్విన్”
- Turkish: “Irvine, North Ayrshire”
- Turkish: “Irvine”
- Ukrainian: “Ірвін”
- Urdu: “یروینی”
- Welsh: “Irbhinn”
- Welsh: “Irvine, Gogledd Swydd Ayr”
- Welsh: “Irvine”
- “Irbhinn”
- “Irvine”
- “Irvine - Irbhinn”
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