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Rossend Castle

Rossend Castle is a historic building in , a town on the south coast of , Scotland. Access is restricted and requires permission.
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  • Access is restricted and requires permission.
  • Type: Commercial building
  • Description: tower house in Fife, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Burntisland Castle”, “Rossend Castle, Burntisland”, and “Wester Kinghorn Castle”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Burntisland railway station and Burntisland Parish Church.

Railway station
Photo: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station in the town of , , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line. is situated 1,400 feet east of Rossend Castle.

Church
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church building in the Fife burgh of , 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. is situated 1,600 feet east of Rossend Castle.

Ruins
, also known as Village and The Binn, is an abandoned industrial village located two miles north of in . It was established in the late 1870s to house workers at the nearby shale oil extraction works. is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Rossend Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burntisland and Aberdour.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a port on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, in 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.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town on the coast of in central Scotland, and nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, with a population in 2011 of 1633.

Town
Photo: BesigedB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town and parish in , . A seaside resort with two beaches, Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the , opposite . is situated 2½ miles east of Rossend Castle.

Rossend Castle

Latitude
56.05872° or 56° 3′ 31″ north
Longitude
-3.24023° or 3° 14′ 25″ west
Levels
4
Open location code
9C8R3Q55+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 384433923
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­commercial
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Wiki­data ID
Q7369777
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In Other Languages

From German to Ukrainian—“Rossend Castle” goes by many names.
  • German: “Rossend Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo Rossend”
  • Russian: “Замок Россенд”
  • Ukrainian: “Замок Россенд”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Archway, Rossend Castle, Burntisland and West Dock.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rossend Castle”. Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.