Kelty
Kelty is a former coal mining town located in Fife, Scotland.
Kelty is a former coal mining town located in Fife, Scotland. Lying in the heart of the old mining heartlands of Fife and adjacent to the M90 motorway, it is situated on the Fife/Kinross-shire boundary and has a population of around 6,000 residents. This was nearer to 9,000 when the coal mining industry was still operational in late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Worth seeing in and around Kelty
4 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.
3.4 km · football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Benarty Hill
Benarty Hill, locally simply Benarty, rises above and to the west of Ballingry, in the west of Fife, Scotland. The summit ridge, known as Mulla Craig, forms the boundary with Perth and Kinross.
3.8 km · hill in Fife, and Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lochore 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”.
3.6 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Dowhill Castle
Dowhill Castle is a ruined castle in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Sited on a hill near Loch Leven, the oldest part of the castle was built in around 1500 as a tower house.
4 km · tower house in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kelty
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 20 km · Glasgow (GLA), 72 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 103 km
- Stations
- Cowdenbeath railway station, 3.3 km
- Glasgow → Kelty62 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–9
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Kelty104 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
- Aberdeen → Kelty137 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
- 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 Kelty
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 Kelty. 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 Kelty
Kelty is 23 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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