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Scoonie
Scoonie is a settlement and parish in Fife, Scotland, the parish contains the town of Leven. It is bordered on the north by the parishes of Kettle and Ceres, on the east by the parish of Largo, on the south by the parishes of Markinch and Wemyss, and on the west by the parishes of Markinch and Kennoway. It extends about north to south. Its width varies between . The parish is on the coast of the Firth of Forth, with a coastline of about Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 1882-4 The area of the parish is .Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Scoonie. Places are presented alphabetically The River Leven forms the southern boundary of the parish, flowing into Largo Bay. The surface rises gradually northward to near Kilmux Wood. In 1951 the population of the parish was 9,518 and is now 9,613 (in 2011).Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scoonie Map 1900
Scoonie is a settlement and parish in Fife, Scotland, the parish contains the town of Leven, Fife, Leven. It is bordered on the north by the parishes of Kingskettle, Kettle and Ceres, Fife, Ceres, on the east by the parish of Largo, Fife, Largo, on the south by the parishes of Markinch and Wemyss, Fife, Wemyss, and on the west by the parishes of Markinch and Kennoway. It extends about north to south. Its width varies between . The parish is on the coast of the Firth of Forth, with a coastline of about Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 1882-4 The area of the parish is .Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Scoonie. Places are presented alphabetically The River Leven, Fife, River Leven forms the southern boundary of the parish, flowing into Largo Bay. The surface rises gradually northward to near Kilmux Wood. In 1951 the population of the parish was 9,518 and is now 9,613 (in 2011).Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Moncrieff (minister)
Alexander Moncrieff ( — 6 October 1688) was a minister with the Church of Scotland. The youngest son of Matthew Moncrieff of Kintillo, Alexander Moncrieff took a prominent part in the church history of the seventeenth century. Moncrieff graduated from the University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ... in 1635, and was a preacher and on the shortlist for Kirkcaldy about six years afterwards. On 14 June 1643 he was presented by Charles I of England, Charles I to the parish of Scoonie, and admitted on 26 September. He was a member of the Commission of General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Assembly in 1647. He subscribed the Solemn League and Covenant on 31 December 1648; and was one of the Commissioners appointed to visit the University of St A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leven, Fife
Leven (Pictish language, Pictish; ) is a seaside town in Fife, set in the east Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the coast of the Firth of Forth at the mouth of the River Leven, Fife, River Leven, north-east of the town of Kirkcaldy and east of Glenrothes. According to the 2022 Scottish Census, Leven has a population of 10,087. The town forms part of the Levenmouth conurbation, which has a total population of 37,651. History The origin of the name "Leven" comes from the Pictish language, Pictish word for "flood". The nearby Loch Leven, being the flood lake, was the name given to both the river and town. A settlement is believed to have formed at the mouth of the River Leven, Fife, River Leven very close to the area around Scoonie Brae with the discovery of the parish church of ''"scoyne"''. During the mid-11th century, Bishop Tuadal of St Andrews gifted the church of "scoyne" to the Culdees of Loch Leven. By the end of the 11th century, the village along with the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fife
Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the south, Perth and Kinross to the west and Clackmannanshire to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Dunfermline, and the administrative centre is Glenrothes. The area has an area of and had a resident population of in , making it Scotland's largest local authority area by population. The population is concentrated in the south, which contains Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. The north is less densely populated, and the largest town is St Andrews on the north-east coast. The area is governed by the unitary Fife Council. It covers the same area as the Counties of Scotland, historic county of the same name. Fife was one of the major Picts, Pictish monarchy, kingdoms, known as ''Fib'', and is still commonly known as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Durie
Durie is a Scottish family of the Scottish Lowlands, not a Scottish clan as sometimes reported.Way, George and Squire, Romily. ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pages 126 - 127. History Origins of the Family The origin of the surname is often said to be from the French ''Du Roi',.'' but this is known to be an error. Nor were they Normans, or "travelled to Scotland in 1069 as part of the entourage of Queen Margaret of Scotland". Modern historical research shows that in 1260 or shortly thereafter, a younger son of the Earl of Strathearn was granted the land in Fife already called Durie and took the name, becoming “of Durie” or, in the Anglo-French used in documents of that time, “de Durie�A much-quoted reference to the Duries being in Fife from 1119 is based on a mis-reading of a carved ston The Duries had the estate of Craigluscar whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Largo, Fife
Largo (Scottish Gaelic: An Leargach) is a parish in Fife, Scotland containing the villages of Upper Largo or Kirkton of Largo, Lower Largo and Lundin Links. It is bounded on the west by the parish of Scoonie, on the north by Ceres and on the east by the parishes of Newburn and Kilconquhar. It has a coastline of 2¾ miles along Largo bay. Inland it extends 3-4 ½ miles north from the south coast of Fife.History of the County of Fife Vol.3, by John Leighton, 1840, p. 129 Area 7,378 acres.Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Largo. Places are presented alphabetically Near the eastern edge of the parish is situated Largo Law, height 953 ft., a conical hill of volcanic origin, whose summit provides an extensive view of the surrounding area and across the Firth of Forth to the Lothians. West of Largo Law is a deep ravine, through which flows a small burn, intersecting the parish from north to south for 2 miles. The name "Largo" comes fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wemyss, Fife
Wemyss ( ) is a civil parish on the south coast of Fife, Scotland, lying on the Firth of Forth. It is bounded on the north-east by the parish of Scoonie and the south-west by the parish of Kirkcaldy and Dysart and its length from south-west to north-east is about 6 miles. Inland it is bounded by Markinch and its greatest breadth is miles.The New Statistical Account of Scotland by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes, Vol. IX Fife-Kinross. Publ. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1845; article on WemyssOrdnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Wemyss The name of the parish is from the Scottish Gaelic ''Uaimheis'' meaning 'Cave Place', from ''uaimh'', 'cave', and ''es'', an obsolete Gaelic suffix meaning 'place of'. The parish gives its name to the family and Earls of Wemyss. Settlements Nearly a dozen towns and villages have existed in Wemyss parish over the years, some now joined to form larger settlements: The parish contains th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictish Language
Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited number of geographical and personal names found on monuments and early medieval records in the area controlled by the kingdoms of the Picts. Such evidence, however, shows the language to be an Insular Celtic language – probably a variant of the Brittonic language once spoken in most of Great Britain. The prevailing view in the second half of the 20th century was that Pictish was a non-Indo-European language isolate, or that a non-Indo-European Pictish and Brittonic Pictish language coexisted. Pictish was replaced by – or subsumed into – Gaelic in the latter centuries of the Pictish period. During the reign of Donald II of Scotland (889–900), outsiders began to refer to the region as the kingdom of Alba rather than the kingdom of the Pict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) is an Act of Parliament (UK), act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered local government of Scotland, local government in Scotland on 16 May 1975. The act followed and largely implemented the report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland in 1969 (the Wheatley Report), and it made the most far-reaching changes to Scottish local government in centuries. It swept away the Counties of Scotland, counties, burghs and districts established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947, which were largely based on units of local government dating from the Middle Ages, and replaced them with a uniform two-tier system of regional and district councils (except in the islands, which were given unitary, all-purpose councils). In England and Wales, the Local Government Act 1972 established a similar system of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England, administrative county and Districts of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Burgh
A small burgh was a unit of local government in Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 in 1930. The Act reclassified existing burghs into two classes, large and small burghs. While large burghs became largely independent of the county councils of the county in which they lay, small burghs lost many of their powers to the county authority. Small burghs were responsible for such matters as housing, lighting and street cleaning and drainage. Police forces maintained by small burghs were merged with the county force. Small burghs were abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, with the administration of their areas passing to new district councils within the regions, or to islands area councils established under the Act. In many cases community council A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain. In England they may be statutory parish councils by another name, under the Local Government and Public Involvement in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Scotland
Civil parishes are small divisions used for statistical purposes and formerly for local government in Scotland. Civil parishes gained legal functions in 1845 when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law. Their local government functions were abolished in 1930 with their powers transferred to county or burgh councils. Since 1975, they have been superseded as the smallest unit of local administration in Scotland by community councils. History Civil parishes in Scotland can be dated from 1845, when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law. While they originally corresponded to the parishes of the Church of Scotland, the number and boundaries of parishes soon diverged. Where a parish contained a burgh, the area of the parish outside the burgh was termed the ''landward'' area. Until 1891 some parishes lay in more than one county. In that year, under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, the boundaries of most of the civil pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 58) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It created a Local Government Board for Scotland and replaced existing parochial boards with parish councils. Part I of the act created the 'Local Government Board for Scotland'. The board had similar powers to those already established in England, Wales, and Ireland. These included the making of orders affecting boundary changes for local authorities and allowing them to carry out such functions as water and gas supply, tramways, and other ancillary activities. The president of the board was the Secretary for Scotland. Part II established a parish council in every parish, while Part III of the Act transferred the powers of the abolished parochial boards to the new parish councils. Finally, part IV gave new powers to landward parishes ("landward" referring to areas outside a burgh A burgh ( ) is an Autonomy, autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland, us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
