Ceres
Ceres is a village in Fife, Scotland, located in a small glen approximately 2 miles over the Ceres Moor from Cupar and 7 mi from St Andrews. The former parish of that name included the settlements of Baldinnie, Chance Inn, Craigrothie, Pitscottie and Tarvit Mill.Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 950 residents
- Description: village in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ceres, Fife”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fife Folk Museum and Cupar railway station.
Fife Folk Museum
Museum
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ceres is a village in Fife, Scotland, located in a small glen approximately 2 miles over the Ceres Moor from Cupar and 7 mi from St Andrews. The former parish of that name included the settlements of Baldinnie, Chance Inn, Craigrothie, Pitscottie and Tarvit Mill.
Cupar railway station
Railway station
Photo: Scott Cormie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cupar railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Cupar in Fife, Scotland. The station has two platforms, of which the southbound one is now wheelchair accessible. Services are provided by ScotRail and CrossCountry. Cupar railway station is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ceres.
Hill of Tarvit
House
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hill of Tarvit is a 20th-century mansion house and gardens in Fife, Scotland. They were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and are today owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pitscottie and Cupar.
Pitscottie
Hamlet
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pitscottie is a village in the Parish of Ceres, Fife, situated on the Ceres Burn at a road junction to the south of Dura Den and 3 miles southeast of Cupar.
Cupar
Town
Cupar is a town, former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies between Dundee and Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population estimate, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the ninth-largest settlement in Fife, and the civil parish a population of 11,183. Cupar is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ceres.
Cupar Muir
Village
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cupar Muir or Cuparmuir is a hamlet or small village situated just outside the town of Cupar, Fife. Lying around 25.5 miles north of Edinburgh, it had a population of around 229 in 2011. Cupar Muir is situated 2½ miles west of Ceres.
Ceres
- Category: locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.29244° or 56° 17′ 33″ northLongitude
-2.97049° or 2° 58′ 14″ westPopulation
950Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)Open location code
9C8V72RH+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 60684781OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653424Wikidata ID
Q33980
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Ceres” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ceres”
- Cebuano: “Ceres”
- Chinese: “克瑞斯”
- Dutch: “Ceres”
- French: “Ceres”
- German: “Ceres”
- Greek: “Σέρις”
- Irish: “Siaras”
- Italian: “Ceres (Cupar)”
- Italian: “Ceres (Fife)”
- Italian: “Ceres (Regno Unito)”
- Italian: “Ceres (Scozia)”
- Italian: “Ceres”
- Japanese: “シーリーズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ceres”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ceres i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Ceres”
- Persian: “سیرز، فایف”
- Persian: “سیرز”
- Piemontese: “Ceres”
- Polish: “Ceres”
- Russian: “Серс”
- Scots: “Seeris”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siaras”
- Spanish: “Ceres”
- Swedish: “Ceres, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Ceres”
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