Inchcolm
Inchcolm is an island in the Firth of Forth 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland
- Also known as: “Columba’s Island” and “Saint Colme’s Inch”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carcraig and Oxcars Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aberdour and Dalgety Bay.
Aberdour
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aberdour is a small town on the coast of Fife in central Scotland, and nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, with a population in 2011 of 1633.
Dalgety Bay
Town
Photo: Arcaist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dalgety Bay is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, nine miles from Edinburgh city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. Dalgety Bay is situated 2 miles west of Inchcolm.
Hillend
Village
Photo: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hillend is a village in Fife, Scotland, to the east of Inverkeithing and to the west of Dalgety Bay. The village has a population of 217. Hillend is situated 3 miles west of Inchcolm.
Inchcolm
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.02877° or 56° 1′ 44″ northLongitude
-3.302° or 3° 18′ 7″ westElevation
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
9C8R2MHX+G6OpenStreetMap ID
way 3467775OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2646246Wikidata ID
Q1660954
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Inchcolm” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Inchcolm”
- Chinese: “因奇科姆島”
- Dutch: “Inchcolm”
- French: “Inchcolm”
- German: “Inchcolm”
- Irish: “Innis Choluim”
- Italian: “Inchcolm”
- Japanese: “インチコム”
- Japanese: “インチコルム島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Inchcolm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Inchcolm”
- Norwegian: “Inchcolm”
- Russian: “Инчколм”
- Russian: “Инчкольм”
- Scots: “Inchcolm”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Innis Choluim”
- Swedish: “Inchcolm”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Inchcolm Museum and Swallow Craig.
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