The Standing Stones on the Ladies Golf Course - geograph

Lundin Links is a small village in the parish of Largo on the south coast of

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in eastern central Scotland. The village was largely built in the 19th century to accommodate tourists visiting the village of

Lower Largo Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on Largo Bay along the north side of the Firth of Forth. It is east of, and contiguous with, Lundin Links. Largo is an ancient fishing village in the parish of Largo, ...

. Lundin Links is contiguous with Lower Largo. The name reflects the Lundin family, former landowners in the area. Lundin House was demolished in 1876 but its Tower remains. The former Lundin Links railway station, originally on the East of Fife Railway, operated from 1857 to 1965. The village has two

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courses. The 18-hole course, Lundin Golf Club, was used as a pre-qualifying course when

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is held at St. Andrews. Lundin Ladies' Golf Club (a 9-hole course) is the oldest women's golf course in the world. On the second fairway of the ladies' course there is a cluster of three

standing stone A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright rock (geology), stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the Eur ...

s dating from the 2nd millennium BC that form a

megalith A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. More than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified across Europe, ranging geographically f ...

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(one of the stones was lost around 1792). A

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ish-era graveyard has been exposed by

coastal erosion Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of Wind wave, waves, Ocean current, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts ...

and is the subject of archæological investigation.

Notable residents

*Dame

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(1909–2004) * Angus Black (1925–2018) rugby player *

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was raised in Lundin Links * The Baronets of Lundin & Montrave *

Ruth Davidson Ruth Elizabeth Davidson, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, (born 10 November 1978), is a Scottish politician. A member of the House of Lords since 2021, she was Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2011 to 2019 and Leader of the S ...

(now Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links)

References

External links

Photographs of the standing stones at Lundin LinksThe Largo Trust
Villages in Fife Levenmouth {{Fife-geo-stub