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Places of Interest

Culross Palace

Museum

Photo: Lyall Duffus, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Culross Palace is a late 16th to early 17th century merchant's house in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The palace, or "Great Lodging", was constructed between 1597 and 1611 by Sir George Bruce, the Laird of Carnock.

Culross Abbey

Church

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Culross Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Culross, Scotland, headed by the Abbot or Commendator of Culross. Part of it is still used as the local parish church by the Church of Scotland.

Culross Town House

Town hall

Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Culross Town House, also known as Culross Tolbooth, is a municipal structure in the Sandhaven area of Culross, Fife, Scotland. The building, which now serves as a visitor centre, is Category A listed.

Places in the Area

Culross

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Culross is a very attractive village in Fife on the north bank of the Firth of Forth. In the 16th and 17th centuries its merchants grew rich from coal, salt and limestone, trading especially with the Low Countries, and building themselves fine town houses.

Kincardine

Town

Photo: Tom Sargent, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kincardine or Kincardine-on-Forth is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. The town was given the status of a burgh of barony in 1663.

Oakley

Village

Photo: MARC CURRAN, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oakley is a village in Fife, Scotland located at the mutual border of Carnock and Culross parishes, Fife, 5+1⁄2 miles west of Dunfermline on the A907. The village was built in connection with the Forth or Oakley Ironworks, now all gone along with the colliery industry.

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