Cowdenbeath

Worth seeing in and around Cowdenbeath

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.

1. 01
   Central Park, Cowdenbeath

   Central Park also known as The Racewall is a multi-use stadium in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, used for football and stock car racing. It is situated in the centre of the town, just off the High Street, and has a capacity of 4,309.

   200 m · football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hallyards 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.

   5 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Loch 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.

   4 km · small lake in Fife, Scotland, UK, outflows east to Gelly Burn · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Carnegie College

   Carnegie College was a further education college based in Halbeath, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It was established in 1899, with financial support from George Lauder and Andrew Carnegie and named after their father and uncle, respectively, George Lauder, Sr.

   4.9 km · further education college in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Lochore 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”.

   4.5 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cowdenbeath

Airports

Edinburgh (EDI), 18 km · Glasgow (GLA), 72 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 102 km

Stations

Dunfermline Queen Margaret railway station, 5.5 km · Lochgelly railway station, 3.6 km · Cowdenbeath railway station, 500 m

• Glasgow → Cowdenbeath

  63 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–9
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Cowdenbeath

  105 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
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• Aberdeen → Cowdenbeath

  138 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cowdenbeath

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 Cowdenbeath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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