Limekilns Harbour

Limekilns Harbour is a bay in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dunfermline Abbey and Rosyth railway station.

Dunfermline Abbey

Church

Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland parish church in Dunfermline, Scotland. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was confiscated and sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair.

Rosyth railway station

Railway station

Rosyth railway station serves the town of Rosyth in Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Fife Circle Line, 14.7 miles north of Edinburgh Waverley.

Midhope Castle

Castle

Photo: Camer01, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Midhope Castle is a late 16th-century tower house in Scotland. It is situated in the hamlet of Abercorn on the Hopetoun estate, About 4 kilometres to the west of South Queensferry, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. It is a Category A listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dunfermline and Rosyth.

Dunfermline

Photo: Kilnburn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dunfermline is a city in Fife, 3 miles north of the Firth of Forth in central Scotland. The city was a royal residence, ecclesiastical centre and effective capital of Scotland from the 11th century, and many monarchs are buried at its abbey.

Rosyth

Photo: Wikimedia, OGL.

Rosyth is a port in Fife in central Scotland. It was built from 1909 as housing for the workers at the Royal Navy dockyard so it's modern and industrial, with a population in 2016 of 13,780.

North Queensferry

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North Queensferry is a village in Fife in central Scotland, with a population of just over 1000 in 2022. It's on the north bank of the Firth of Forth, at a narrow point that has been a ferry crossing for many centuries.

Limekilns Harbour

Type: Bay
Category: body of water
Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.0336° or 56° 2′ 1″ north

Longitude

-3.4847° or 3° 29′ 5″ west

Open location code

9C8R2GM8+F4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8638324268

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Limekilns and Charlestown.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Limekilns Mobile Service Post Office and Limekilns Parish Church.

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