Cardenden
Cardenden is a Scottish town located on the south bank of the River Ore in the parish of Auchterderran, Fife.
Cardenden is a Scottish town located on the south bank of the River Ore in the parish of Auchterderran, Fife. It is approximately four miles northwest of Kirkcaldy. Cardenden was named in 1848 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway for its new railway station. A former mining town, Cardenden had a reported population of 448 in 1891 that had increased to 5,533 as of 2011.
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Worth seeing in and around Cardenden
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Kirkcaldy Galleries
Kirkcaldy Galleries is the main museum, library and exhibition space in Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland.
5.7 km · Museum and library in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Loch Gelly
Loch Gelly is a small loch in Fife, Scotland lying approximately 1.5 km to the south east of the town of Lochgelly which itself is named after the loch. The Gaelic name of the loch, Loch Gheallaidh, can be loosely translated as Loch of Shining Waters or Loch of Brightness.
2.9 km · small lake in Fife, Scotland, UK, outflows east to Gelly Burn · Wikipedia - 03Hallyards Palace
Hallyards Castle or Halyards, located to the north-west of the village of Auchtertool, is reputed to have been a hunting seat of Malcolm Canmore.
3 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Knockdavie Castle
Knockdavie Castle is a now-ruined 17th-century house in Burntisland parish, Fife, Scotland. The name probably derives from the Gaelic cnoc dubh -in " black hill", with cnoc dabhoch “the hill farm” another theory.
5.9 km · house in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Lochore Castle
Lochore Castle is a ruined 14th-century tower house, about 3 miles south east of Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and south of Lochore, east of Loch Ore, in Lochore Country Park. Little remains of the castle, which was originally on the island of Inchgall, the name meaning “Isle of Strangers”.
5.2 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cardenden
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 22 km · Glasgow (GLA), 79 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 109 km
- Stations
- Fife Airport, 5.9 km · Kirkcaldy railway station, 5.6 km · Lochgelly railway station, 3.9 km · Cardenden railway station, 1.1 km
- Glasgow → Cardenden69 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–10
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Cardenden111 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
- Aberdeen → Cardenden132 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cardenden
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cardenden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom 1847 to 1890 the world's first ro-ro ferry plied across the Forth between Burntisland and Granton near Edinburgh: railway trucks were shunted on and off the ferry without needing unloading, while passengers walked.
- Get inDr Bell of Edinburgh, one of the main inspirations for Sherlock Holmes, once theatrically deduced that a patient had come by this ferry by the nature of the mud on his boots.
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Next door to Cardenden
Cardenden is 20 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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