Silver Sands
Silver Sands is a beach in Scotland, United Kingdom. Silver Sands is situated nearby to the pitch Aberdour Shinty Club, as well as near the climbing site Hawkcraig.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Aberdour Castle and Aberdour railway station.
Aberdour Castle
Photo: Andy Hawkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aberdour Castle is in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with Castle Sween in Argyll, which was built at around the same time. Aberdour Castle is situated 3,100 feet west of Silver Sands.
Aberdour railway station
Railway station
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aberdour railway station is a railway station in the village of Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line. Aberdour railway station is situated 3,600 feet west of Silver Sands.
St Fillan’s Church, Aberdour
Church
Photo: Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Fillan’s Church, Aberdour is situated 2,800 feet west of Silver Sands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aberdour and Burntisland.
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.
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.
Dalgety Bay
Town
Photo: Arcaist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dalgety Bay is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, nine miles from Edinburgh city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. Dalgety Bay is situated 3 miles southwest of Silver Sands.
Silver Sands
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.05396° or 56° 3′ 14″ northLongitude
-3.28339° or 3° 17′ 0″ westOpen location code
9C8R3P38+HJOpenStreetMap ID
way 502921159OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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