Largs Seafront – The Pencil Monument loop from Inverkip

Inverkip And Wemyss Bay

Largs Seafront – The Pencil Monument loop from Inverkip

Moderate

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Largs Seafront – The Pencil Monument loop from Inverkip

03:18

71.6km

520m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 66.0 km for 59 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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4.95 km

Wemyss Bay Railway Station

Highlight • Rest Area

The station incorporates the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry terminal connecting mainland Scotland to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.

The station was designed by James Miller in 1903 for the Caledonian …

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9.30 km

View of Bute and the Cowal Peninsula

Highlight • Viewpoint

Both Bute and the Cowal peninsula are accessible via ferry and have lots of great road and gravel cycling.

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15.0 km

lots of options to fuel up before leaving towards Glasgow route or Greenock. Moreover another option would be a short ferry to Isle of Cumbrae, which has a nice cycle friendly 10 mile circumnavigation of island.

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15.1 km

Magnus the Viking Statue

Highlight • Historical Site

The 16 feet tall steel statue of Magnus the Viking was erected in 2013 to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the the Battle of Largs in 1263 when the Scots …

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15.3 km

Largs Ferry Terminal

Highlight • Settlement

17.2 km

Beach

17.8 km

The Pencil Monument

Highlight • Historical Site

In the early 1900s the local council ran a competition to design a statue here. The winner was a bronze statue of King Alexaner pointing out to sea. Unfortunately it was too expensive so thy build this pencil instead...

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25.0 km

Poteath Bank Plantation

Forest

42.3 km

Seamill Beach

Highlight • Beach

45.3 km

Highthorn Wood

Forest

50.1 km

View of Cumbrae and the Clyde from Fairlie

Highlight • Viewpoint

Cumbrae is easily accessed via regular ferries from Largs. It has one very flat road following it’s coast approx 10 miles and another road climbing to the Glaid Trig point and great views to Ben Lomond and the Cobbler.

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71.6 km

End point

Train Station

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