Fairlie

Fairlie is a village in , on the west coast of Scotland. Fairlie has about 1,440 residents.
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Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
  • Type: Village with 1,440 residents
  • Description: village in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Fairlie, North Ayrshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fairlie railway station and Fairlie Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the village of Fairlie, , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

Castle
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a restored oblong tower castle located on a natural rounded knoll situated above a precipitous section of the Fairlie Glen near the town of Fairlie in the old Barony of Fairlie, Parish of , , Scotland.

Photo: wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large house near Fairlie, , Scotland. It is the seat of the Earl of Glasgow. Originally built in the thirteenth century it was remodelled in the sixteenth century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Millport and Largs.

Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Great Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of , with as its only settlement, and a population of 1376 in 2011. The island is about 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide, roughly tooth-shaped, with a broad bay indenting its south coast.

Photo: Scotia, CC BY 3.0.
is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of , with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction.

Photo: Scotia, CC BY 3.0.
is a town in on the Clyde coast, with a population of 4860 in 2022. Named for St Brigit of Kildare, it was traditionally a weaving, potato-growing and sheep-farming town.

Fairlie

Latitude
55.75363° or 55° 45′ 13″ north
Longitude
-4.85471° or 4° 51′ 17″ west
Population
1,440
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB FEE
Open location code
9C7QQ43W+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6881558331
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2649738
Wiki­data ID
Q5430546
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Fairlie” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Fairlie”
  • Cebuano: “Fairlie”
  • Dutch: “Fairlie”
  • French: “Fairlie”
  • German: “Fairlie (Schottland)”
  • German: “Fairlie”
  • Hebrew: “פיירלי”
  • Irish: “Fairlidh”
  • Irish: “Fàirlidh”
  • Italian: “Fairlie”
  • Japanese: “フェアリー”
  • Persian: “فیرلی، نورث‌آیرشر”
  • Scots: “Fairlie, North Ayrshire”
  • Scots: “Fairlie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fairlidh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fàirlidh”
  • Spanish: “Fairlie”
  • Swedish: “Fairlie, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Fairlie”
  • Welsh: “Fàirlidh”
  • Welsh: “Fairlie”
  • “Fairlie - Fairlidh”

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