Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth 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 Inchcolm.

Inchcolm

Islet

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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.

Carcraig

Islet

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Carcraig is an islet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aberdour and Dalgety Bay.

Aberdour

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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

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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 3 miles west of Oxcars Lighthouse.

Burntisland

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Burntisland is a port on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, in Fife 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 Lighthouse

Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse in Fife, Scotland, UK
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.02253° or 56° 1′ 21″ north

Longitude

-3.28027° or 3° 16′ 49″ west

Open location code

9C8R2PF9+2V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 500611296

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

GeoNames ID

11694310

Wikidata ID

Q17817344

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In Other Languages

From Czech to French—“Oxcars Lighthouse” goes by many names.

Czech: “maják Oxcars”
Czech: “Maják Oxcars”
French: “phare d’Oxcars”
French: “Phare d’Oxcars”

Localities in the Area

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Nearby Places

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