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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Largs
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(9000 in 1991) Seaside resort in Strathclyde, near the southern end of the Firth of Clyde. The elaborately carved and painted Skelmorlie Aisle (1636) is the mausoleum of Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie. Just south of the town at Bowen Craig is the 'Pencil', a monument commemorating the Battle of Largs (1263), in which *Alexander III defeated the Norwegian king *Haakon IV, who was attempting to assert Norway's traditional rights over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man; as an indirect result both were ceded to the Scottish crown.
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