Kirkcaldy and Dysart is a civil parish on the south coast of

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 ...

, Scotland, lying on the

Firth of Forth The Firth of Forth () is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south. Name ''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meani ...

, containing the towns of

Kirkcaldy Kirkcaldy ( ; sco, Kirkcaldy; gd, Cair Chaladain) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh and south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, ...

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 Kinghorn (; gd, Ceann Gronna) is a town and parish in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh. Accordin ...

which lay within the burgh of Kirkcaldy.Edinburgh Gazette, October 11, 1901, Order No. XLII However the parish of Abbotshall was originally part of the parish of Kirkcaldy and had only been disjoined from it in 1650.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Abbotshall The civil parish of Kirkcaldy and Dysart is bounded on the south by the parish of

and a small section of

Auchtertool Auchtertool (; gd, Uachdar Tuil) 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 (from Gaelic ''tuil'' meaning ''torrent''). ...

, on the west by

Auchterderran 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 name derives from Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gài ...

, on the north by

Kinglassie Kinglassie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cill Ghlaise'') is a small village and parish in central Fife, Scotland. It is located two miles southwest of Glenrothes. It has a population of around () The civil parish has a population of 22,543 (in 2011).Cens ...

, on the north-west by

Markinch 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).Cens ...

and on the east by Wemyss.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Dysart It contains the Community Council areas of Kirkcaldy West, Templehall, Kirkcaldy North (Dunnikier), Bennochy/Hayfield, East Kirkcaldy, Dysart and Thornton.Fife Community Council web site www.fifedirect.org.uk/CommunityCouncils retrieved May 2016 The civil parish has a population of 49,918 (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 and its area is 9581 acres.Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Kirkcaldy. Places are presented alphabetically

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