Charlestown
Charlestown is a village in Fife, Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, south-east of Crombie and around 1 mile west of Limekilns, and 3 miles south-west of Dunfermline.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Charlestown, Fife”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Charlestown, Harbour Road, Limekilns and DM Crombie.
Charlestown, Harbour Road, Limekilns
Heritage site
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charlestown, Harbour Road, Limekilns is a heritage site.
DM Crombie
Military installation
Defence Munitions Crombie is a military munitions depot on the upper Firth of Forth in West Fife, Scotland. The depot is located on the north shore of the river, south of the village of Crombie and west of Charlestown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Limekilns and Crombie.
Limekilns
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Limekilns is a historic coastal village in Fife, Scotland. It lies on the shore of the Firth of Forth, around 3 miles south of Dunfermline and 13 miles northwest of Edinburgh.
Crombie
Village
Crombie is a village in the civil parish of Torryburn, in southwest Fife, Scotland. The village is on the A985 road 3 miles west of Dunfermline and is to the south of Cairneyhill, and north-west of Charlestown.
Crossford
Village
Photo: Euchiasmus, Public domain.
Crossford is a small village located in West Fife, Scotland. Its population was 2,358 in 2011. It is 1 mile west of the city Dunfermline, east of Cairneyhill, astride the A994. Crossford is situated 2 miles north of Charlestown.
Charlestown
- Category: locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.03683° or 56° 2′ 13″ northLongitude
-3.50027° or 3° 30′ 1″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CWNOpen location code
9C8R2FPX+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 29339294OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653333Wikidata ID
Q3666636
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Charlestown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Charlestown”
- Dutch: “Charlestown”
- French: “Charlestown”
- Irish: “Baile Theárlaich”
- Irish: “Baile Theàrlaich”
- Italian: “Charlestown”
- Japanese: “チャールズタウン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charlestown”
- Norwegian: “Charlestown”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Thearlaich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Theàrlaich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Charlestown, Fife”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Charlestown”
- Urdu: “چارلس ٹاؤن، فائف”
- Urdu: “چارلس ٹاؤن”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Green and Scottish Lime Centre - Charlestown Workshops.
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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 “Charlestown”. Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.