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    Burntisland (/bɜːrntˈaɪlənd/ listen, Scots: Bruntisland) is a former Royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth...
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  • Blessing of Burntisland was a wooden ferry that carried people and goods 5 miles (8 km) across the Firth of Forth, Scotland, between Burntisland and Leith...
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    The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company was a shipbuilder and repairer in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland that was founded in 1918. In 1969 it was taken over...
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  • Burntisland Thistle Football Club was an association football club from Burntisland in Fife, Scotland. The club was formed in 1876, being one of the first...
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    Burntisland Parish Church (also known as St Columba's, Burntisland) is a church building in the Fife burgh of Burntisland, constructed for the Church...
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  • Burntisland Shipyard Football Club are a Scottish football club based in the town of Burntisland, Fife. The club competes in the East of Scotland League...
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    Rossend Castle is a historic building in Burntisland, a town on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. A keep, known as the Tower of Kingorne Wester, was...
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    Burntisland Burgh Chambers is a municipal structure in the High Street, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The building, which is the meeting place of the Burntisland...
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    on 24 January 1957 in the Indian Ocean. The penalties imposed on the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company in Scotland for the delays in completion of the...
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  • August 1689, and Duke of Melfort, Marquess of Forth, Earl of Isla and Burntisland, Viscount of Rickerton and Lord Castlemains and Galston in the Jacobite...
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    Burntisland railway station is a railway station in the town of Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle...
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  • James Wemyss, Lord Burntisland (bef. 1657 – December 1682) was a Scottish peer. Weymss was the son of General Sir James Wemyss of Caskieberry. On 28 March...
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    Loch Glendhu in Scotland. She was built at the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company's shipyard in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland in 1944. Colledge, J. J.; Warlow...
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    A duty (tax) of Two Pennies Scots per Scots pint of beer was placed on all beer brewed or sold within various towns in Scotland between the 1700s and the...
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    Aberdour and Burntisland West Party Candidate Votes % Labour Ronald Edwards 536 SNP Carol Gorton 335 Conservative Alexander Spence 217 Independent Isabella...
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    encompassing Rosyth, Inverkeithing and the southern edge of Dunfermline, Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, Bo'ness and Leven. The firth is bridged in two places. The...
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  • University Fort William v Hill of Beath Hawthorn Benburb v Vale of Leithen Burntisland Shipyard v Dunipace Haddington Athletic v Auchinleck Talbot Creetown...
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    2005–2024: The Fife Council wards of Aberdour and Burntisland West; Auchtertool and Burntisland East; Ballingry and Lochore; Bennochy and Valley; Cowdenbeath...
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    Binn, is an abandoned industrial village located two miles north of Burntisland in Fife. It was established in the late 1870s to house workers at the...
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  • the principal ferry harbour was Burntisland. As early as 1819 a railway had been proposed, starting from Burntisland to the Firth of Tay. The engineer...
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    KW KW17 Orkney (Orkney) KY KY01 KY1, KY2 Kirkcaldy Fife KY KY03 KY3 Burntisland Fife KY KY04 KY4shared Cowdenbeath Fife KY KY04 KY4shared Kelty Fife...
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    converted to become the first Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife, Scotland, built her under order from the...
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    Mary Somerville (category People from Burntisland)
    (1741–1830) (author of My Own Life and Times). Her childhood home was at Burntisland, Fife, where her mother was from. Somerville was the second of four surviving...
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    the rapid transport of goods. Modern ports were constructed at Methil, Burntisland and Rosyth. Kirkcaldy became the world centre for the production of linoleum...
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  • Grangemouth Hound Point Terminal Leith Montrose Methil Rosyth Dundee Burntisland Kirkcaldy Perth List of ports and harbours in Scotland List of ports...
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    had police stations in Aberdour, Anstruther, Auchtermuchty, Ballingry, Burntisland, Cardenden, Cowdenbeath, Cupar, Dunfermline Dalgety Bay, Glenrothes,...
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    Yoker Mid Scotland and Fife Aberdour Alloa Blair Atholl Bridge of Allan Burntisland Cameron Bridge Cardenden Cowdenbeath Crianlarich Cupar Dalgety Bay Dunblane...
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  • Kirkcaldy Wanderers in 1881, playing its first match against Rossend of Burntisland on 12 November 1881, after practising for several weeks on "Mr Stark's...
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  • Angus, Scotland Newbigging, Auchtertool, Fife, Scotland Newbigging, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland Newbigging, Carnock, Fife, Scotland Newbigging, South...
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  • demolished 1993 Grandtully Grandtully Highland 1910, demolished Grange Burntisland Lowland 1925, demolished 1990 Greenock Greenock Lowland 1915, demolished...
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