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Fife (/ f aɪ f / FYFE, Scottish English:; Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha; Scots: Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i.e., the historic counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire) and Clackmannanshire.
Map of places in Fife compiled from this list This list of places in Fife is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, mansion, hillfort, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other places of interest in the Fife council area of Scotland. Aberdour Castle Anstruther Balgonie Castle Balmerino Abbey Culross Palace Dairsie Castle Dalgety Bay Dysart Falkland ...
Fib (the Fife peninsula) Fotla (an expanded Atholl) Fortriu (the areas to the north and west of the Grampians, including the Great Glen, and extending to the Atlantic coast, and as far north as the Dornoch Firth) Fidach (unknown location). In later legends Albanactus, the legendary founder of Scotland, had seven sons, who each founded a kingdom.
St Andrews (Latin: S. Andrea(s); [3] Scots: Saunt Aundraes; [4] Scottish Gaelic: Cill Rìmhinn, pronounced [kʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ]) [5] is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16 kilometres) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 kilometres) northeast of Edinburgh.
By 1918, the estate had been abandoned by its owners, the East of Fife Coal Company, who had opened the Valleyfield Colliery in 1912. Valleyfield House was demolished in 1941. Preston Island by Low Valleyfield, now a peninsula as the result of the landfill of ash from nearby Longannet power station , was the site of coal mining and major salt ...
North Queensferry is a historic coastal village in Fife, Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth, 9 mi (14 km) from Edinburgh city centre. Located on the North Queensferry Peninsula, it is the southernmost settlement in Fife.
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Temperatures in Glenrothes, like the rest of Scotland, are relatively moderate given its northern latitude. Fife is a peninsula, located between the Firth of Tay in the north, the Firth of Forth in the south and the North Sea in the east. Summers are relatively cool and the warming of the water over the summer results in warm winters.