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Pattiesmuir

Pattiesmuir is a small, dormitory hamlet located in the west of Fife, in Scotland.

The place

Pattiesmuir is a small, dormitory hamlet located in the west of Fife, in Scotland. It lies west of Rosyth and south west of Dunfermline.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pattiesmuir

10 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
    Dunfermline Abbey

    Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland parish church in Dunfermline, Scotland. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair.

    3.7 km · church in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rosyth Castle

    Rosyth Castle is a fifteenth-century ruined tower house on the perimeter of Rosyth Naval Dockyard, Fife, Scotland. It originally stood on a small island in the Firth of Forth accessible only at low tide, and dates from around 1450, built as a secure residence by Sir David Stewart, who had been granted the Barony of Rosyth in 1428.

    2.1 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pittencrieff Park

    Pittencrieff Park is a public park in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It was purchased in 1902 by Andrew Carnegie, and given to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year.

    3.6 km · public park in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Broomhall

    Broomhall House is the family seat of the Earls of Elgin, three miles south-west of Dunfermline, sitting above the village of Limekilns and near the village of Charlestown, in Fife, Scotland. The building was designated as a Category A listed building in 1971.

    1.8 km · building in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Town House, Townhall Street, Inverkeithing

    Inverkeithing Town House is a municipal building in Townhall Street, Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland. Originally built before 1550, the surviving building was rebuilt between 1755 and 1770.

    3.6 km · Town House in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Inverkeithing Museum

    Inverkeithing Friary, formally known as the Hospitium of the Grey Friars, is a 14th-century friary building and gardens located Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland. The surviving friary building is considered to be the finest remaining example of a medieval friary building in Scotland by Fife Coast and Countryside Trust, and is Category A listed by Historic Environment Scotland.

    3.6 km · local museum in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial Museum

    The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, dedicated to the life of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, "one of the great Scots of the 19th century.". The museum is operated by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and is housed in a category B listed building.

    3.4 km · museum in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

    The Dunfermline Carnegie Library opened in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 29 August 1883 and was the world's first Carnegie Library funded by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It was designed by Edinburgh architect James Campbell Walker who also designed the nearby Dunfermline City Chambers.

    3.7 km · public library in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dunfermline City Chambers

    Dunfermline City Chambers is a municipal facility at the corner of Bridge Street and Kirkgate in Dunfermline, Fife. The building, which serves as home to the local area committee of Fife Council, is a Category A listed building.

    3.8 km · city hall in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Peter's Parish Church, Church Street, Inverkeithing

    Inverkeithing Parish Church of St Peters is a Church of Scotland parish church in Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland. Dating from before 1139, the church has been at the centre of historic events such as the Scottish Catholic-Culdee dispute of 1250; the Inverkeithing witch hunt of 1621 to 1655; and the Inverkeithing Case of 1752, which led to the Second Secession of the Church of Scotland.

    3.6 km · church in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Pattiesmuir

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 11 km · Glasgow (GLA), 64 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 92 km
Stations
Inverkeithing railway station, 3.7 km · Rosyth railway station, 2 km · Dunfermline City railway station, 3.5 km · Inverkeithing East And West Harbour, 3.8 km
  • Glasgow → Pattiesmuir
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £6–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Pattiesmuir
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14
  • Aberdeen → Pattiesmuir
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pattiesmuir

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTaxi operators include NQ Ferry +44 1383 669755, Mac's Taxis +44 1383 411111, Graham's +44 1383 413505 and Forth Taxis +44 1383 611611.

From Wikivoyage: North Queensferry, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    117 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    123 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    148 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    203 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    206 km

If you know how people move in Pattiesmuir – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Pattiesmuir

Pattiesmuir is 19 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.