Markinch
Markinch is both a village and a parish in Fife, Scotland.
Markinch is both a village and a parish in Fife, Scotland. According to an estimate taken in 2008, the village has a population of 2,420. The civil parish had a population of 16,530. Markinch is east of Fife's administrative centre, Glenrothes, and preceded Cupar as Fife's place of warranty and justice prior to the 13th century.
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Worth seeing in and around Markinch
9 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.
- 01Balgonie Castle
Balgonie Castle is located on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie, 3.5 kilometres east of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century.
1.9 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Leslie House
Leslie House is a Category A listed historic building located in Glenrothes, Fife. It is the largest and earliest Restoration house in Fife, Scotland, and was the seat of the Earls of Rothes for over 250 years.
3.7 km · country house in Leslie, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Balbirnie House
Balbirnie House is an early 19th-century country house in Glenrothes, in central Fife, Scotland. The present house was completed in 1817 as a rebuild of an 18th-century building, itself a replacement for a 17th-century dwelling.
1 km · country house in Markinch parish, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Balbirnie Stone Circle
Balbirnie Stone Circle is an archaeological site, a stone circle on the north-eastern edge of Glenrothes, in Fife, Scotland.
1.7 km · archaeological site in Fife, Scotland · Wikipedia - 05The River Leven Suspension Bridge
The River Leven Suspension Bridge, better know locally as The White Bridge, is a suspension bridge in Glenrothes that carries the B969 distributor road over the River Leven and the Riverside Park. The bridge was designed by Nicoll Russell Studios and was opened in 1995.
3.5 km · bridge in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland · Wikipedia - 06Fife House, Glenrothes
Fife House, formerly Glenrothes House, is a large office development on North Street in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It was built for Glenrothes Development Corporation in 1969, then became the headquarters of Fife Regional Council from shortly after its formation in 1975 and then became the offices and meeting place of Fife Council in 1996.
2.6 km · municipal Building in Scotland · Wikipedia - 07Riverside Park, Glenrothes
Riverside Park is a large town park situated in Glenrothes, Fife. The park straddles the River Leven valley riparian corridor, comprising significant areas of woodland, grassed playing fields and wetlands.
3 km · park in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 08Kingdom Shopping Centre
The Kingdom Shopping Centre is an indoor retail and commercial complex in Glenrothes, located in the town centre. It is the largest indoor shopping centre in Fife and is one of the largest single-level indoor shopping centres in Scotland with around 36,000 m2 of floorspace.
2.4 km · shopping destination in Glenrothes, Scotland · Wikipedia - 09Balfarg
Balfarg is a prehistoric monument complex in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It is protected as a scheduled monument.
2.1 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
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Getting to Markinch
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 32 km · Glasgow (GLA), 89 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 119 km
- Stations
- Markinch railway station, 300 m
- Glasgow → Markinch79 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Markinch121 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–19
- Aberdeen → Markinch122 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Markinch
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 Markinch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Markinch – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Markinch
Markinch is 28 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Glenrothestown in Fife, Scotland, UK2.4 km
- Coaltown of Balgonievillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.1 km
- Milton of Balgonievillage in Fife, Scotland, UK3 km
- Cadhamvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.2 km
- Starvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.3 km
- Collydeanneighbourhood in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, UK3.4 km