Coaltown of Wemyss
Coaltown of Wemyss is a village in south-east Fife, Scotland, around 5 km north of Kirkcaldy.
Coaltown of Wemyss is a village in south-east Fife, Scotland, around 5 km north of Kirkcaldy. The town was built in the 1890s as an estate village on the lands of nearby Wemyss Castle to house - as the name implies - mineworkers employed in several coal mines in the area. The miners' cottages were designated as a conservation area in 1980. Today the Coaltown has a primary school, some small shops, and the Earl David Hotel, named after David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss. Wemyss Castle itself is not open to the public but its gardens can be visited during summer.
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Worth seeing in and around Coaltown of Wemyss
3 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.
- 01Macduff's Castle
MacDuff's Castle is a ruined castle near East Wemyss, in Fife, Scotland. The site is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the Middle Ages, although nothing survives from this period.
2.3 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Wemyss Castle
Wemyss Castle is situated in Wemyss on the sea cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Wemyss Castle is considered to be a multi-period building, and today's castle includes many elements from former periods such as the 15th-century tower and the 19th-century stables and gatepiers.
900 m · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Fife Ice Arena
Fife Ice Arena, originally known as Kirkcaldy Ice Rink, opened in 1938. The Kirkcaldy Ice Rink was designed by architects Williamson & Hubbard.
3.5 km · arena in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Coaltown of Wemyss
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 28 km · Glasgow (GLA), 89 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 118 km
- Stations
- Glenrothes with Thornton railway station, 3.5 km
- Glasgow → Coaltown of Wemyss79 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–11
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Coaltown of Wemyss120 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–18
- Aberdeen → Coaltown of Wemyss126 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
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- 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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Coaltown of Wemyss is 23 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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