West Wemyss
West Wemyss is a village lying on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. According to the 2007 population estimate, the village has a population of 237.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Adrian’s Church And Churchyard, Main Street, West Wemyss and Wemyss Castle.
St Adrian’s Church And Churchyard, Main Street, West Wemyss
Church
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wemyss Castle
House
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wemyss Castle is situated in Wemyss on the sea cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Wemyss Castle is considered to be a multi-period building, and today's castle includes many elements from former periods such as the 15th-century tower and the 19th-century stables and gatepiers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coaltown of Wemyss and Dysart.
Coaltown of Wemyss
Village
Photo: Arcaist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Coaltown of Wemyss is a village in south-east Fife, Scotland, around 5 km north of Kirkcaldy. The town was built in the 1890s as an estate village on the lands of nearby Wemyss Castle to house - as the name implies - mineworkers employed in several coal mines in the area.
Dysart
Suburb
Dysart is a town and former royal burgh located on the south-east coast between Kirkcaldy and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Dysart was once part of a wider estate owned by the St Clair or Sinclair family. Dysart is situated 1½ miles southwest of West Wemyss.
East Wemyss
Village
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Wemyss is a village situated on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,928. East Wemyss is situated 2 miles northeast of West Wemyss.
West Wemyss
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.14009° or 56° 8′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.08666° or 3° 5′ 12″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WWEOpen location code
9C8R4WR7+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 4426814720OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2634235Wikidata ID
Q282073
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“West Wemyss” goes by many names.
- Basque: “West Wemyss”
- Chinese: “西維米斯”
- Dutch: “West Wemyss”
- French: “West Wemyss”
- German: “West Wemyss”
- Greek: “Γουέστ Γουίμζ”
- Italian: “West Wemyss”
- Swedish: “West Wemyss”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Auld Wemyss Ways Heritage Centre and War Memorial, Croftamorie, West Wemyss.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “West Wemyss”. Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.