Ballingry
Ballingry; Scots: Ballingry, Bingry, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Iongrach) is a town in Fife, Scotland. It is near the boundary with Perth and Kinross, north of Lochgelly.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,740 residents
- Description: town in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ballingry, Lochore and Crosshill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch Ore and Benarty Hill.
Loch Ore
Park
Photo: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Ore is a loch situated in Fife, Scotland. It forms the core of Lochore Meadows Country Park. It is used mainly for leisure purposes, especially yachting, although the uneven depth can make speed boating problematic.
Benarty Hill
Peak
Photo: Viewfinder, Public domain.
Benarty Hill, locally simply Benarty, rises above and to the west of Ballingry, in the west of Fife, Scotland. The summit ridge forms the boundary with Perth and Kinross.
Lochore Castle
Ruins
Photo: Internet Archive Book Images, Public domain.
Lochore Castle is a ruined 14th-century tower house, about 3 miles south east of Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and south of Lochore, east of Loch Ore, in Lochore Country Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lochore and Crosshill.
Lochore
Village
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lochore is a former mining village in Fife, Scotland. It takes its name from the nearby Loch Ore. It is largely joined to the adjacent villages of Ballingry to the north and Crosshill to the south.
Crosshill
Village
Photo: edward mcmaihin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crosshill is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated just south of Lochore and east of Loch Ore.
Glencraig
Village
Glencraig is a very small former mining village in Scotland, situated in the Benarty area of Fife, between Crosshill and Lochgelly. The village's population has decreased significantly since the decline of the coal-mining industry during the 1970s and 1980s.
Ballingry
- Category: locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.16476° or 56° 9′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.32529° or 3° 19′ 31″ westPopulation
5,740Elevation
400 feet (122 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BINOpen location code
9C8R5M7F+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 29343629OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Ballingry” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ballingry”
- Basque: “Ballingry”
- Bulgarian: “Балингрй”
- Cebuano: “Ballingry”
- Chinese: “巴林格瑞”
- Dutch: “Ballingry”
- French: “Ballingry”
- Irish: “Baile Iongrach”
- Italian: “Ballingry”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ballingry”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballingry”
- Norwegian: “Ballingry”
- Scots: “Bingry”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Iongrach”
- Spanish: “Ballingry”
- Swedish: “Ballingry”
- Welsh: “Ballingry”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lochcraig and Woodend.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ballingry Post Office and Ballingry Cemetery.
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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 “Ballingry”. Photo: edward mcmaihin, CC BY-SA 2.0.