Hill of Beath
Hill of Beath is a village in Fife, Scotland, just outside Dunfermline and joined to Cowdenbeath.
Hill of Beath is a village in Fife, Scotland, just outside Dunfermline and joined to Cowdenbeath. The village is named for the nearby hill of the same name.
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Worth seeing in and around Hill of Beath
2 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.
- 01Central 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.
1.9 km · football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Carnegie 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.
3.1 km · further education college in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hill of Beath
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 16 km · Glasgow (GLA), 71 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 100 km
- Stations
- Dunfermline Queen Margaret railway station, 3.7 km · Cowdenbeath railway station, 2.4 km
- Glasgow → Hill of Beath61 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £6–8
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Hill of Beath102 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
- Aberdeen → Hill of Beath140 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hill of Beath
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 Hill of Beath. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Burntisland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Hill of Beath
Hill of Beath is 19 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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