๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on Largo Bay along the north side of the Firth of Forth. It is east of, and contiguous with, Lundin Links.
Largo is an ancient fishing village in the parish of Largo. An excavated late 5th century cemetery points to an early settlement of the site, and there are records of the Knights Templar holding lands to the east of the town in the 12th century. It was made a "burgh of barony" by Sir Andrew Wood in 1513. This meant it had the right to erect a mercat cross and hold weekly markets, but not the extensive trading rights of a royal burgh. In 1654, Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu mentions Largo as "Largow burne-mouth" in his Nova Fifae Descriptio.
Lower Largo is famous as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The house that now stands at his birthplace on 99-105 Main Street features a life-sized statue of Selkirk wearing self-made goatskin clothes, scanning the horizon. A signpost at the harbour points to Juan Fernรกndez Islands, some 7,500 miles distant, where Selkirk lived for more than four years as a castaway.
The arrival of the railway in 1857 brought many tourists to Lower Largo's sandy beach. The village has retained many historic buildings from the 17th to 19th century, and in 1978 it was designated as a conservation area.
The Fife Coast Railway line through Lower Largo was closed in 1965 as part of the restructuring programme of British railways known as the Beeching cuts (overseen by Richard Beeching), and though it has been disused since then the viaduct that dominates the village remains an important local landmark.
The war memorial in Lower Largo was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.
Lower Largo has a population of over 2,390 people. Lower Largo also forms part of the wider Fife District which has a population of over 371,910 people. Lower Largo is situated near Glenrothes.
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Lower Largo has links with:
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๐ท๐บ Zheleznogorsk 56.251
๐ฉ๐ฐ Central Denmark 56.261
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๐ท๐บ Kolchugino 56.317
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๐ท๐บ Nizhny Novgorod 56.327
๐ท๐บ Velikiye Luki 56.333
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Glenrothes 56.198
๐ท๐บ Solnechnogorsk 56.183
๐ธ๐ช Karlskrona 56.162
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Kirkcaldy 56.145
๐ท๐บ Cheboksary 56.144
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Forfar -2.888
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Dundee -2.976
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Locations Near: Lower Largo -2.941,56.214
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Kirkcaldy -3.163,56.145 d: 15.8
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Glenrothes -3.178,56.198 d: 14.8
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Dundee -2.976,56.471 d: 28.6
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Haddington -2.782,55.957 d: 30.2
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Dalkeith -3.013,55.913 d: 33.7
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Leith -3.17,55.98 d: 29.6
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Edinburgh -3.183,55.95 d: 33
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Forfar -2.888,56.644 d: 47.9
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Angus -2.854,56.71 d: 55.5
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Dunfermline -3.439,56.072 d: 34.7
Antipodal to: Lower Largo 177.059,-56.214
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๐ณ๐ฟ Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18340.3
๐ณ๐ฟ Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18340.3
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