Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville is a memorial in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland. Mary Somerville is situated nearby to the building Masonic Hall, Somerville Square, Burntisland, as well as near Burntisland Library.Places of Interest Nearby
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 railway station is situated 430 feet south of Mary Somerville.
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. Burntisland Parish Church is situated 340 feet southeast of Mary Somerville.
Rossend Castle
Residential building
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rossend Castle is a historic building in Burntisland, a town on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. Rossend Castle is situated 1,300 feet west of Mary Somerville.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burntisland and Kinghorn.
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 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.
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 Mary Somerville.
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.
Mary Somerville
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Mrs. Mary Somerville 1780-1872 daughter of Vice Admiral Sir William Fairfax resided here Well known Mathematician and Astronomer”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.05852° or 56° 3′ 31″ northLongitude
-3.2339° or 3° 14′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C8R3Q58+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 8376143142OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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