Burntisland
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burntisland railway station and Burntisland Parish Church.
Burntisland railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burntisland railway station is a railway station in the town of Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line.
Burntisland Parish Church
Church
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burntisland Parish Church is a church building in the Fife burgh of Burntisland, constructed for the Church of Scotland in 1592. It is historically important as one of the first churches built in Scotland after the Reformation, with a highly distinctive and apparently original square plan.
Binnend
Ruins
Binnend, also known as Binnend Village and The Binn, is an abandoned industrial village located two miles north of Burntisland in Fife. It was established in the late 1870s to house workers at the nearby shale oil extraction works.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aberdour and Kinghorn.
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.
Kinghorn
Town
Photo: BesigedB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kinghorn is a town and parish in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh. Kinghorn is situated 2½ miles east of Burntisland.
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. Auchtertool is situated 3 miles north of Burntisland.
Burntisland
- Type: Town with 6,270 residents
- Description: town in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.0594° or 56° 3′ 34″ northLongitude
-3.2331° or 3° 13′ 59″ westPopulation
6,270Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BTLOpen location code
9C8R3Q58+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 29338805OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Burntisland” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Burntisland”
- Basque: “Burntisland”
- Bengali: “বার্নটিসল্যান্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Бърнтайланд”
- Catalan: “Burntisland”
- Cebuano: “Burntisland”
- Chinese: “伯恩蒂斯兰”
- Chinese: “伯恩蒂斯島”
- Chinese: “本泰兰”
- Chinese: “本泰蘭”
- Dutch: “Burntisland”
- Esperanto: “Burntisland”
- Finnish: “Burntisland”
- French: “Burntisland”
- Georgian: “ბერნტაილენდი”
- German: “Burntisland”
- Gujarati: “બર્નટિસલેન્ડ”
- Hebrew: “ברנטיסלנד”
- Indonesian: “Burntisland”
- Irish: “An t-Eilean Loisgte”
- Irish: “An tEilean Loisgte”
- Irish: “Eilean a Chroinn”
- Irish: “Eilean a‘ Chroinn”
- Italian: “Burntisland”
- Japanese: “バーンタイランド”
- Japanese: “バーンティスランド”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ನ್ಟಿಸ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Korean: “번트아일랜드”
- Lithuanian: “Burntislandas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burntisland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burntisland”
- Norwegian: “Burntisland”
- Persian: “برنتآیلند”
- Polish: “Burntisland”
- Portuguese: “Burntisland”
- Romanian: “Burntisland”
- Russian: “Бернтайленд”
- Scots: “Bruntisland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Eilean Loisgte”
- Spanish: “Burntisland”
- Swedish: “Burntisland”
- Tamil: “புரண்டிஸ்லந்த”
- Telugu: “బుర్నటిస్లాండ్”
- Urdu: “برنتیسلینڈ”
- Welsh: “Burntisland”
- “Burntisland”
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