Kinglassie, United Kingdom
Kinglassie is a town of 1,820 people in Scotland, United Kingdom.
Why visit Kinglassie
Townapedia lists 4 museums and landmarks, 3 parks and trails, 6 places to eat and 4 attractions in and around town.
Highlights include The River Leven Suspension Bridge, Kinglassie War Memorial, Riverside Park, Glenrothes and Glenrothes Golf Course.
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About Kinglassie
Kinglassie (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Ghlasain or 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
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Things to do4
The River Leven Suspension Bridge
Bridge · 2.7 mi
Bridge in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland
Museums and landmarks4
Parks, trails and playgrounds3
Restaurants and cafes6
History
The name of the village derives from Scottish Gaelic, although the exact meaning is obscure. The name was first recorded as "Kilglassin" in 1127. The first element, kil, is from the Gaelic, cill, meaning monk's cell or church, though gradually gave way to kin or ceann, meaning head or end, by the 13th century. The element 'glassie' may refer to the Irish saint Glaisne (also commemorated in an Irish townland with the same Gaelic name: Kinglassan~Cill Ghlasáin), or may refer to the word glas meaning 'burn', either as glasain "place of the burn" or glaise, simply "of the burn". Taken together this gives "St Glaisne's Church" or "Church of the Burn" as possible meanings. It is certainly common for cill place names to contain the name of a saint, however the later tradition of a St Glastian or Glascinanus is probably a late medieval attempt to explain the place name, rather than a reflection of a genuinely early saint's cult. Almost nothing of this period remains to be seen in the parish, except for the Dogton Stone, a Pictish cross of the 9th or early 10th century, situated in a field about a mile (1.5 km) to the south, at grid reference – NT 236 968. The lower portion of the stone is all that remains of the cross and badly eroded decoration including a figure of an armed horseman above two beasts can be discerned. It is a scheduled monument.
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The administrative or secular district for which the church of Kinglassie served as parochial centre, and with which the later parish of Kinglassie was coextensive, was known as Goatmilkshire, or the schir of Gatemilc.
Kinglassie has a primary school, Mitchell Hall (1896) and the Miners' Welfare Institute (est. 1931). Fife Airport lies about a mile (1.5 km) to the north and, on a hill overlooking the farm of Redwells, stands Blythe's Folly, a 15.6-metre-high (51 ft) tower built in 1812 by an eccentric Leith ship owner. Kinglassie's development during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was marked by its rapid expansion to house mine workers. Many mine workers perished or were injured during the life of the mine. The mine was plagued by water flooding problems. The Kinglassie Pit opened in 1908 and closed in 1967. The Westfield open cast coal mine lies to the west of the village and is still regarded as the biggest man-made hole in Europe by local people.
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Arts and culture
The Kinglassie & District Pipe Band was reformed in 1982. It is currently in Grade 4a and its members are mostly of school age.
Fife mining museum, formed in 1992, is located in Kinglassie at the back of the Kinglassie Miners Welfare Institute. The museum closed recently.
The town is a key stop on the Fife Pilgrim Way walking route, being a historically popular rest point for pilgrims making their way to St Andrews.
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Notable people from Kinglassie
William ReidBritish Army general (1791–1858)Photo: Richard James Lane, Public domain- Jimmy BonthroneScottish footballer and manager (1929-2008)
Born in Kinglassie, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.
Churches and places of worship1
Schools, colleges and libraries1
Healthcare1
Map of Kinglassie
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Getting there and nearby towns
Edinburgh Airport (EDI) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 16 miles away.
- Leslie 2 mi northeast, about 3 min by car
- Glenrothes 3 mi northeast, about 5 min by car
- Thornton 4 mi east, about 6 min by car
- Lochgelly 4 mi southwest, about 7 min by car
- Kirkcaldy 5 mi southeast, about 8 min by car
- Markinch 5 mi northeast, about 7 min by car
- Cowdenbeath 6 mi southwest, about 9 min by car
- Falkland 6 mi north, about 9 min by car
- Milnathort 8 mi northwest, about 12 min by car
- Methil 9 mi east, about 14 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
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