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Riggin O Fife
The Riggin o Fife is an upland area of Fife, Scotland which runs eastward from the Markinch Gap and the Howe of Fife to form the elevated hinterland to the coastal villages of the East Neuk. At 290 m, Largo Law is the highest hill, with other high points including Clatto Hill (248 m), Drumcarrow Craig (217 m), Kellie Law (182 m) and Tarvit Hill (211 m). The area is rural, populated by farms and hamlets, with a few small villages, such as Largoward and Peat Inn. ''Riggin'' denotes a high ridge, the roof, the backbone, the exposed parts or the watershed. William Wilkie, agriculturalist and professor of natural philosophy at the University of St Andrews, conducted successful experiments in moorland farming at his farm at Cameron. From 1898 to 1964, the Riggin was served by the East Fife Central Railway mineral and goods line. The area lends its name to a pipe jig The jig ( ga, port, gd, port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, 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. 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. A person from Fife is known as a ''Fifer''. In older documents the county was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire. Fife is Scotland's third largest local authority area by population. It has a resident population of just under 367,000, over a third of whom live in the three principal towns, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. The historic town of St Andrews is located on the northeast coast of Fife. It is well known for the University of St Andrews, the most ancient univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markinch Gap
Markinch (, (Scottish Gaelic: Marc Innis) is both a village and a parish in the heart of Fife, Scotland. According to an estimate taken in 2008, the village has a population of 2,420. The civil parish had a population of 16,530 (in 2011).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 Markinch is east of Fife's administrative centre, Glenrothes and preceded Cupar as Fife's place of warranty and justice prior to the 13th century. History The earliest indications of human activity around Markinch are Balfarg henge and Balbirnie Stone Circle, in an area now incorporated into the new town of Glenrothes, but formerly part of Markinch Parish. They are said to date back to 3,000 BC from the Neolithic period.Fiet ''Old Markinch'' pp.3-4.Fife Council ''Glenrothes and Surrounding Villages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howe Of Fife take their name from the area.
The Howe of Fife is the broad, low-lying valley of the River Eden, lying between the Ochil Hills and the Lomond Hills in Fife, Scotland. ''Howe'', in Scots means a hollow or a plain bounded by hills. The alternative terms ''Laich of Fife'' and the ''Valley of Eden'' have fallen from use, as has ''Stratheden'', save for the hospital near Cupar. Cupar-based Howe of Fife RFC Howe of Fife RFC is a rugby union club based in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. It was founded in 1921, and they play in blue and white hoops. References Geography of Fife Valleys of Scotland {{Fife-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Neuk
The East Neuk () or East Neuk of Fife is an area of the coast of Fife, Scotland. "Neuk" is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the East Neuk is generally accepted to comprise the fishing villages of the most northerly part of the Firth of Forth and the land and villages slightly inland therefrom. In effect, this means that part to the south of a line drawn parallel to the coast from just north of Earlsferry to just north of Crail, approximately in area. As such it would include Elie and Earlsferry, Colinsburgh, St Monans, Pittenweem, Arncroach, Carnbee, Anstruther, Cellardyke, Kilrenny, Crail and Kingsbarns and the immediate hinterland, as far as the upland area known as the Riggin o Fife. The area houses a Cold War era bunker near Crail. Built in the late 1950s to be a regional seat of government in the event of a nuclear war Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a theoretical military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Largo Law
Upper Largo or Kirkton of Largo is a village in the parish of Largo, near the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. It rests on the southern slopes of Largo Law and half a mile north of Largo Bay and the rather larger village of Lower Largo. It is the home of Largo Cricket Club. Location To traffic passing through Upper Largo it can be mistaken for a single street (this is ''Main Street'') of mostly stone built shops and houses. A junction in the centre of this street leads either north-east towards St Andrews along the A915 road or east along the coast on the A917. At the western end of Main Street is the Upper Largo Hotel and a ship's chandlery, in what was formerly the village garage and filling station. A minor road north of here leads to a small village green and the adjacent kirkyard of the Largo and Newburn Parish Church. The kirkyard is on a rise and affords good views over the rooftops of the village, and of the houses and cottages on the north side of the green. Further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kellie Law
Kellie may refer to: Surname * James M. Kellie (1848–1927), Canadian miner and political figure *Mike Kellie (1947–2017), English drummer with Spooky Tooth and The Only Ones * J. D. Kellie-MacCallum (1845–1932), British police officer, Chief Constable of Northamptonshire County Constabulary Given name *Kellie Abrams (born 1978), Australian professional basketball player *Kellie Bright (born 1976), English actress * Kellie Casey (born 1965), Canadian alpine skier *Kellie Coffey (born 1971), American country musician *Kellie Crawford (born 1974), Australian entertainer *Kellie Harper (born 1977), American basketball coach *Kellie Leitch (born 1970), Canadian politician *Kellie-Ann Leyland (born 1986), English-born Northern Irish footballer * Kellie Lightbourn (born 1974), American model * Kellie Lim, disabled activist and student *Kellie Loder (born 1988), Canadian musician * Kellie Magnus (born 1970), Jamaican author and journalist *Kellie Maloney (born 1953, previously k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Largoward
Largoward is a village in East Fife, Scotland, lying on the road from Leven to St Andrews in the Riggin o Fife, 4½ miles north-east of Lower Largo and 6½ miles south-west of St Andrews.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Largoward It is an agricultural and former mining village, one of the three main villages of the civil parish of Kilconquhar, along with Colinsburgh and the village of Kilconquhar.Third Statistical Account of Scotland; volume on Fife, by Alexander Smith, Publ. 1952. Article on Kilconquhar Coal must have been worked for a considerable length of time in the district, as it is recorded that coal was driven annually from Falfield, just north-west of the village, to Falkland Palace for the use of King James VI James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peat Inn
Peat Inn is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland, around southeast of Cupar on the B940 and southwest of St Andrews, in the Riggin o Fife The Riggin o Fife is an upland area of Fife, Scotland which runs eastward from the Markinch Gap and the Howe of Fife to form the elevated hinterland to the coastal villages of the East Neuk. At 290 m, Largo Law is the highest hill, with other h .... The hamlet is centred on a hotel and restaurant of the same name. External links its entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland* Hamlets in Fife {{Fife-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wilkie
William Wilkie (5 October 1721 – 10 October 1772) was a Scotland, Scottish Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Natural Philosophy primarily remembered as a poet nicknamed Potato Willie, known more respectfully as the "Scottish Homer". The son of a farmer, he was born in West Lothian and educated at Edinburgh. In 1757 he produced the ''Epigoniad'', dealing with the Epigoni, sons of seven heroes who fought against Thebes, Greece, Thebes. He also wrote ''Moral Fables in Verse''. Life The son of James Wilkie, a farmer, he was born at Echline Farm, in the parish of Dalmeny, West Lothian on 5 October 1721. He was educated at Dalmeny parish school and then studied at the University of Edinburgh, having among his college contemporaries John Home, David Hume, William Robertson (historian), William Robertson, and Adam Smith. His father dying during his student days, he succeeded to the unexpired lease on a farm at Fishers' Tryste, near Edinburgh. This he carried on to support hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of St Andrews
(Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment = £117.7 million (2021) , budget = £286.6 million (2020–21) , chancellor = The Lord Campbell of Pittenweem , rector = Leyla Hussein , principal = Sally Mapstone , academic_staff = 1,230 (2020) , administrative_staff = 1,576 , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , doctoral = , other = , city = St Andrews , state = , country = Scotland , coordinates = , campus = College town , colours = United College, St Andrews St Mary's College School of Medicine S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron, Fife
Cameron is a parish in east Fife, Scotland, 3½ miles south-west of St Andrews.Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Cameron. Places are presented alphabetically It is bounded on the north by the parish of St Andrews, on the east by Dunino, on the south by Carnbee and Kilconquhar, and on the west by Ceres. From east to west it is 5 – 6 miles long and in breadth about 4 miles.The New Statistical Account of Scotland by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes, Vol. IX Fife-Kinross. Publ. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1845; article on Cameron The earliest forms of the name are from the twelfth century and appear as ''Cambrun''. The etymology of the name is uncertain: it may derive from Pictish, Scottish Gaelic, or be a Gaelicised Pictish name. The first element could thus be Gaelic ''cam'' or its Pictish cognate *''cam'' (both meaning 'crooked'), and the second element could be a Pictish word *''brun'', cognate with Welsh ''bryn'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
