Thornton Wood

Thornton Wood is a forest in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland. Thornton Wood is situated nearby to the locality Whitehouse Wood, as well as near Woodend Wood.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Loch Fitty and Scottish Vintage Bus Museum.

Loch Fitty

Lake

Photo: Ian Cowie, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Loch Fitty is a lake.

Scottish Vintage Bus Museum

Museum

Photo: Richard West, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum is a transport museum in Lathalmond, 2.5 miles north of Dunfermline, Fife. The museum is open every Sunday between April and the start of October.

Beath High School

School

Beath High School is a non-denomational state secondary school in Cowdenbeath, Fife. The school is run by Fife Council and the current roll stands at around 1400 pupils aged from 11 to 18.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cowdenbeath and Kelty.

Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is 5 miles north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town grew up around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a police burgh in 1890.

Kelty

Town

Photo: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kelty is a former coal mining town located in Fife, Scotland. Lying in the heart of the old mining heartlands of Fife and adjacent to the M90 motorway, it is situated on the Fife/Kinross-shire boundary and has a population of around 6,000 residents.

Kingseat

Village

Kingseat is a village in Fife, Scotland, approximately 1.5 miles northeast of Dunfermline. It was originally a coal mining village with the first pits sunk in the area in the mid 1800s.

Thornton Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.1252° or 56° 7′ 31″ north

Longitude

-3.4095° or 3° 24′ 34″ west

Operator

Forestry and Land Scotland

Open location code

9C8R4HGR+36

OpenStreetMap ID

way 294285332

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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