Kirkcaldy and Dysart

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Kirkcaldy and Dysart is a civil parish on the south coast of Fife, Scotland, lying on the Firth of Forth, containing the towns of Kirkcaldy and Dysart and their hinterland. The civil parish was formed in December 1901 by an amalgamation of the parishes of Kirkcaldy, Dysart and Abbotshall, along with the portion of the parish of Kinghorn which lay within the burgh of Kirkcaldy. [1] However the parish of Abbotshall was originally part of the parish of Kirkcaldy and had only been disjoined from it in 1650. [2]

Fife Council area of Scotland

Fife is a council area and historic county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely held to have been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. Fife is one of the six local authorities part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region.

Firth of Forth estuary or firth of Scotlands River Forth

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Kirkcaldy town and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland

Kirkcaldy is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about 11.6 miles (19 km) north of Edinburgh and 27.6 miles (44 km) south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, making it Fife's second-largest settlement and the 12th most populous settlement in Scotland.

The civil parish of Kirkcaldy and Dysart is bounded on the south by the parish of Kinghorn and a small section of Auchtertool, on the west by Auchterderran, [2] on the north by Kinglassie, on the north-west by Markinch and on the east by Wemyss. [3] It contains the Community Council areas of Kirkcaldy West, Templehall, Kirkcaldy North (Dunnikier), Bennochy/Hayfield, East Kirkcaldy, Dysart and Thornton. [4]

Kinghorn town and parish in Fife, Scotland

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Auchtertool village in United Kingdom

Auchtertool is a small village in Fife, Scotland. It is 4 miles west of Kirkcaldy. The name is from the Gaelic uachdar, meaning upland or heights above the Tiel burn. The Tiel Burn flows a few hundred yards south of the kirk and village, which was formerly known as Milton of Auchtertool. The parish belonged to the diocese of Dunkeld, having been given to Bishop Gregory by King David I in the twelfth century. Soon after, the church was given to the Priory of Inchcolm.

Auchterderran village in United Kingdom

Auchterderran is a village in Fife, Scotland. It is sometimes thought as part of the larger village, Cardenden, although Cardenden is part of the parish of Auchterderran.

The civil parish has a population of 49,918 (in 2011) [5] and its area is 9581 acres. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh Gazette, October 11, 1901, Order No. XLII
  2. 1 2 Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Abbotshall
  3. ↑ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Dysart
  4. ↑ Fife Community Council web site www.fifedirect.org.uk/CommunityCouncils retrieved May 2016
  5. ↑ Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved March 2016. See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930
  6. ↑ Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Kirkcaldy. Places are presented alphabetically
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