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Oxcars

Oxcars is an islet in , . Oxcars is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Oxcars Lighthouse and Inch Mickery.

Lighthouse
Photo: Simon Johnston, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Islet
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inchmickery is a small island in the in Scotland. It is about two miles north of Edinburgh. Its name comes from the Scottish Gaelic, Innis nam Biocaire, meaning Isle of the Vicars, implying that there may have been an old ecclesiastical or Culdee settlement here, as in nearby .

Islet
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is an island in the in Scotland. The island has a long history as a site of religious worship, having started with a church, which later developed into a monastery and a large Augustine Abbey in the mid 13th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aberdour and Dalgety Bay.

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is a small town on the coast of in central Scotland, and nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, with a population in 2011 of 1633.

Town
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is a coastal town and parish in , , on the north shore of the , nine miles from city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. is situated 3 miles west of Oxcars.

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is a port on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, in in central Scotland, with a population of 6600 in 2020. Its west side is industrial and formerly had ship-building, but its east is a small seaside resort and commuter town for Edinburgh.

Oxcars

Latitude
56.02223° or 56° 1′ 20″ north
Longitude
-3.27972° or 3° 16′ 47″ west
Open location code
9C8R2PCC+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 41065870
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2640736
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