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Cameron is a parish in east 
The civil parish has a population of 415Census 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 9325 acres. It is also a Community Council area. The number of community councillors to which each area is entitled is determined by population and Cameron is therefore entitled to eight councillors.Cameron Community Council http://www.cameroncc.org.uk/ retrieved May 2016
Cameron was originally part of the parish of St Andrews, but was erected into a separate parish in 1645 by act of parliament and the first minister of the parish, George Nairne, was inducted in 1646. With the
Cameron Kirk
Canmore retrieved 2 April 2019 Ecclesiastically the parish is now linked to the parish of St. Leonards in the town of St Andrews, with the minister covering both churches.St Andrews Presbytery web site http://www.standrewspresbytery.org.uk/standrewschurches.cfm?ChurchID=18 retrieved May 2016 The most significant mansion in the parish is that of Mount Melville, former residence of the Melville family, which lies just inside the northern boundary of the parish. It was acquired in 1698 for General George Melville of Strathkiness and the present house was constructed in 1820-1821. The house and grounds continued in Melville family ownership until 1901. In 1947 Mount Melville house and gardens were acquired by Fife County Council with the mansion becoming a maternity hospital known as Craigtoun Hospital. The gardens were then established as Craigtoun Country Park. During the 19th century, the burgh of St Andrews implemented several poorly planned schemes to provide a public water supply to the town, but problems were resolved in 1911 when they built Cameron reservoir, in the centre of the parish, which supplied water to St Andrews from then until the early 2020s.
Cameron is a parish in east Fife
Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the s ...
, Scotland, 3½ miles south-west of St Andrews
St Andrews (; ; , pronounced ʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourth-largest settleme ...
.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
Kilconquhar (, locally also ) is a village and parish in Fife in Scotland. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the parishes of Elie, Ceres, Cameron, St Monans, Carnbee, Newburn and Largo.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotl ...
, 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
Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited number of geog ...
, Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...
, 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'' ('hill'), or Gaelic ''bruinne'' ('chest, front, breast') or perhaps ''brú'' ('belly'). The later development of the name was influenced by the widespread Scottish personal name ''Cameron'' (from Gaelic ''cam shròn'' 'crooked nose').
It contains the hamlets of Lathones, Denhead (first mentioned in 1581, from Scots ''den'', 'steep valley', and ''heid'', 'head or end', thus 'the end of the steep valley') and Radernie (first mentioned in 1329, from Gaelic ''ràth'' 'ring-fort' and an uncertain second element, possibly Gaelic ''àirne'' 'sloe', ''feàrnach'' 'alder', or ''Èirinn'' 'Ireland').Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Cameron
The civil parish has a population of 415Census 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 9325 acres. It is also a Community Council area. The number of community councillors to which each area is entitled is determined by population and Cameron is therefore entitled to eight councillors.Cameron Community Council http://www.cameroncc.org.uk/ retrieved May 2016
Cameron was originally part of the parish of St Andrews, but was erected into a separate parish in 1645 by act of parliament and the first minister of the parish, George Nairne, was inducted in 1646. With the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 58) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It created a Local Government Board for Scotland and replaced existing parochial boards with parish councils.
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the Parish Council was established. It ceased in 1930 when parish councils in Scotland were abolished, but civil parishes persist for census and other non-administrative purposes.
The church is nearly in the centre of the parish, just north of Cameron Burn as its leaves Cameron Reservoir
Cameron Reservoir is an artificial loch in the parish of Cameron in east Fife, Scotland. Covering an area of , the reservoir is fed by a catchment of and its surface level is above ordnance datum. Most of the catchment area is to the south and ...
. It was built in 1808 to a plain design, replacing the old church on the same site which was in a very ruinous state. The church is covered in blue slate, with a belfry on the west gable.Web site of Historic Environment Scotland (former Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) was an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government that was "sponsored" inanced and with oversightthrough Historic Scotland, an executive ...
),Cameron Kirk
Canmore retrieved 2 April 2019 Ecclesiastically the parish is now linked to the parish of St. Leonards in the town of St Andrews, with the minister covering both churches.St Andrews Presbytery web site http://www.standrewspresbytery.org.uk/standrewschurches.cfm?ChurchID=18 retrieved May 2016 The most significant mansion in the parish is that of Mount Melville, former residence of the Melville family, which lies just inside the northern boundary of the parish. It was acquired in 1698 for General George Melville of Strathkiness and the present house was constructed in 1820-1821. The house and grounds continued in Melville family ownership until 1901. In 1947 Mount Melville house and gardens were acquired by Fife County Council with the mansion becoming a maternity hospital known as Craigtoun Hospital. The gardens were then established as Craigtoun Country Park. During the 19th century, the burgh of St Andrews implemented several poorly planned schemes to provide a public water supply to the town, but problems were resolved in 1911 when they built Cameron reservoir, in the centre of the parish, which supplied water to St Andrews from then until the early 2020s.
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