Montquey Hill

Montquey Hill is a peak in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland and has an elevation of 538 feet. Montquey Hill is situated nearby to the locality Bernard’s Smithy, as well as near Puddledub.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aberdour Castle and Knockdavie Castle.

Aberdour Castle

Photo: Andy Hawkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aberdour Castle is in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with Castle Sween in Argyll, which was built at around the same time.

Knockdavie Castle

Ruins

Photo: John Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Knockdavie Castle is a now-ruined 17th-century house in Burntisland parish, Fife, Scotland. The name probably derives from the Gaelic cnoc dubh -in " black hill ", with cnoc dabhoch “the hill farm” another theory.

Aberdour railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aberdour railway station is a railway station in the village of Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aberdour and Auchtertool.

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.

Auchtertool

Village

Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Auchtertool is a small village in Fife, Scotland. It is 4 miles west of Kirkcaldy. The name is from the Gaelic uachdar, meaning upland or heights above the Tiel burn.

Burntisland

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Burntisland is a port on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, in Fife in central Scotland, with a population of 6300 in 2022. Its west side is industrial and formerly had ship-building, but its east is a small seaside resort and commuter town for Edinburgh.

Montquey Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 538 feet
Category: landform
Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.07445° or 56° 4′ 28″ north

Longitude

-3.2842° or 3° 17′ 3″ west

Elevation

538 feet (164 metres)

Open location code

9C8R3PF8+Q8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3598245625

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12617461

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