Irvine

Irvine is a town in 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.
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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.

Railway station
Photo: Daniel, CC BY 2.0.
is a railway station serving the town of Irvine, , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 30 miles south west of .

Museum
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
The is an industrial museum with a Collection Recognised as Nationally Significant to Scotland. It is located at two sites in the West of in Irvine and , with a focus on Scotland's shipbuilding heritage.

Park
, Scott's / Scot's Loch or the Loch of Irvine was situated in a low-lying area running from Ravenspark to near Stanecastle and down to Lockwards, now represented only by the playing fields off Bank Street in the Parish of Irvine, , Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dreghorn.

Village
is a village in , Scotland, 3.5 kilometres east of Irvine town centre, on the old main road from Irvine to . It is sited on a ridge between two rivers.

Irvine

Latitude
55.6143° or 55° 36′ 52″ north
Longitude
-4.6656° or 4° 39′ 56″ west
Population
33,700
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB IRV
Open location code
9C7QJ87M+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3824817957
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646032
Wiki­data ID
Q1774629
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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
  • 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
  • Lithuanian: Irvinas
  • 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
  • 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

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Irvine”. Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.