Places to see in ( Kinross - UK )
Places to see in ( Kinross - UK )
Kinross is a burgh in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was originally the county town of Kinross-shire. The site of the original parish church and churchyard are located down a small wynd overlooking Loch Leven, a little away from the town.
Kinross was originally linked by railway to Perthshire, Fife and Clackmannanshire until the rail links gradually disappeared. At one time three independent railway companies had their termini at the town. The Fife and Kinross Railway came from the east, the Kinross-shire Railway came from the south and The Devon Valley Railway came from the west. Recently Kinross has expanded considerably, especially since the construction of the M90 motorway - the main north-south artery which bypasses the town. Many people working within a commuting radius of Kinross have settled in the town owing to its convenient central location and excellent local amenities. Loch Leven is also a popular holiday base for tourists, who especially appreciate its proximity to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth and St Andrews (all lying within an hour's drive of Kinross).
The burgh is attractively located on the shores of Loch Leven, and there are boat trips around the loch and to Loch Leven Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots was famously held prisoner in 1567. There are roughly 4000-5000 people living in Kinross. The vast majority of children living in Kinross will attend Kinross High School, with the others also possibly attending local private schools such as Dollar Academy.
Kinross was also the home of Flight Sergeant George Thompson whose posthumous Victoria Cross in 1945 is often cited as the best merited of the entire air war. He was the wireless operator in a Lancaster of No. 9 Squadron on a dawn raid against the Dortmund-Ems Canal when the plane was struck by a salvo of two 88mm shells.
Kinross offers many opportunities for getting out and being active, with countless options for walking and cycling in the local area. A recently developed path called the Loch Leven Trails has been developed which offers 12.5 km of walking and cycling heritage trail around the shoreline of Loch Leven. It begins at RSPB Vane Farm Nature Reserve via Findatie to Kinross Pier/Kirkgate Park. The local leisure centre in Kinross - Loch Leven Leisure also opportunities for all ages and abilities to stay active all year round. Kinross also has 3 amateur football teams. Kinross AFC who currently play in the Fife Kingdom Caledonian Football League. Fossoway AFC who play in the Fife 1st division and Portmoak AFC who play in the Perthshire 3rd division.
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Come to life in Fife
There really is something in the air in Fife. It’s the Kingdom with a bit of spark, where you can follow in the footsteps of golfing greats and Outlander stars. Or, you can experiences high speeds on stretches of fine sands as you try land-yachting or in a high performance vehicle on Knockhill Racing Circuit. How will you come to life in Fife?
Perhaps you’ll delve into the region’s fascinating and varied history, exploring places such as Dunfermline Abbey, Incholm Abbey and the Secret Bunker. You could try your hand at hickory golf, see beautiful scenery from the coastal path, or take the train over the stunning Forth Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Get up close to Fife’s wildest residents at the Scottish Deer Centre and when it’s time for refreshments, choose from modern breweries and distilleries or dine in one of Fifes many quality restaurants.
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Fife Circle Class 68 Glenrothes - Edinburgh via Kirkcaldy
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Scotrail Great City Swap with This is Edinburgh and People Make Glasgow
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Old Photographs Auchtermuchty Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Auchtermuchty, Scottish Gaelic: Uachdar Mucadaidh, meaning upland of the pigs a town in Fife. Until 1975 Auchtermuchty was a royal burgh, established under charter of King James V in 1517. There is evidence of human habitation in the area dating back over 2,000 years, and the Romans are known to have established a camp in the south east corner of the town. In the past, the linen industry was a major source of work in the town, but in the early 18th century the firm of John White was established, bringing the town its first foundry, there were two eventually. There was even a whisky distillery in operation from 1829 to 1929, when Prohibition in the U.S.A. led to its closure. The town was used as the location for Tannochbrae in the 1990s ITV series Dr. Finlay. Craig Reid and Charles Reid were born in Leith on 5 March 1962, and grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall and Auchtermuchty. When they lived in Auchtermuchty they attended Bell Baxter High School. After several punk rock bands at school they formed the Proclaimers in 1983
December Sunny Afternoon Drive To Dunfermline Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland video of part of a sunny afternoon drive from North Queensferry on the M90 road North to visit Dunfermline in Fife. The Amazon Fulfilment Centre which can be see on the left is the biggest in the UK.
A Royal Scot in Action on the Southern
This was the second visiting LMS loco from Carnforth, featuring 46115 'Scots Guardsman'. Taken at similar location to videos on 45699 but 46115 stopped at Winchfield as booked.
Rooms @ 29 Bruce Street
Exclusive boutique hotel situated in the heart of Dunfermline town centre. Close to all ammenities and the High Street. 17 Luxurious bedrooms all with en suite facilities.
From Hill To Sea - Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective - 2010-14
Author : Fife Psychogeographical Collective
Date : Nov 2015
Music from the Video : Oneohtrix Point Never : Where Does the Time Go (2011)
Durutti Column : Requiem Again (1989)
Pike image: Lindsay Brown
William Gear painting – Intérieur noir (1950), courtesy of David Gear.
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It often happens. A sensation at the edge of perception. A glint of light, a fluttering of movement. The feeling that some-thing has flitted across the threshold of the senses.
Fife: almost an island. Betwixt and between the cities of Edinburgh and Dundee; an ancient Pictish Kingdom, bounded by the Firths of Forth and Tay. Where a Brutalist New Town is built on a 4,000 year old henge and 18 feet menhirs brood on a ladies golf course, under the shadow of Largo Law.
Spectral trees drift above the plague graves of Devilla Forest, whilst sky-facing cup and ring carvings lie hidden on a hillside near Burntisland, a distant echo of their post-industrial landscape counterparts.
Ideas crackle, tussle and fizz, throughout the ether over this land-formed Scottie dogs head. Kirkcaldy's famous son Adam Smith tossed a large brick into the pool of economic theory with a 'Wealth of Nations' written on a site now housing Greggs the Bakers. The self-interest of the baker to supply us with sausage rolls and steak bakes is alive and well.
You can take a walk with the ghosts through Little Moscow where Lawrence Storione founded the Anarchist Communist League in Cowdenbeath and West Fife elected Willie Gallacher as the first Communist MP in 1935. In Lumphinnans you will find Gagarin Way, a street tagged in honour of the Soviet cosmonaut.
In Methil and East Wemyss, walk the streets and landscapes which inspired the painter William Gear, a member of CoBrA, the post-war, European, avant-garde movement that fed into the Situationist International. In Rosyth, ‘The Wilderness’ most definitely does exist. Stumble across industrial relics in the most unlikely places.
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Crowned by thorns
an elegy
from the future?
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Moving outwards, there are encounters with the uncanny in Edinburgh; a freedom fighter of the International Brigades and a psychedelic tiger in Glasgow. Kurt Schwitters and Kittiwakes in Newcastle. We bounce on 'Sacrilege' - Jeremy Deller’s blow up Stonehenge and contemplate Debord and Huizinga. On a train from Falkirk to Glasgow, a performance of John Cage’s 4’33”.
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awaken,
to the spooling thread
of a blackbird’s raga
gravity loosens and
Berlin floats – just a little
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The presence and wonder of non-human worlds. From archipelagos of imaginary islands, within lichen formations, to the forms and colours of the wild wood.
Corvids, song thrushes, buzzards and birds of the coast sing, soar, chant and stalk the shoreline; whilst a serendipitous encounter with a kingfisher occurs at the side of an urban canal in Huddersfield:
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I'm hit by a jolt of blue at the periphery of vision. Surely not. For I second, I wonder if I've imagined this, when it happens again, like a razor, scything through the twilight which descends to alight barely 10 feet away on the canal bank. A twitching ball of nervous energy, curious. It appears to pull in all the surrounding light and radiate it back. The illuminated blues of lapis lazuli, golden orange, red flecks. A shape-shifting intensity of colours.
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From Hill to Sea. Wandering beyond the paths and roads through forest, edgeland, town and city. Thin places, worlds within worlds, voids, wild woods and coffin tracks. At the coast, shifting thresholds of sea and sky; land and tidal flows:
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From the railway bridge over the Forth
a blue-tinged wash of elemental greys.
Sea and sky bleed
into a Rothko memory
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Walking as being-in-the-world, in the flux and flow of the present moment. Old Heraclitus was right, you never step in the same burn or river twice.
Some Questions of the Drift – Where does the sky begin? When does the inside become the outside? Transitions and marking seasonal time –The Poppies are in the Field
Mapping the interstices of past, present and possible. Assorted rag-pickings collected and (re)presented along the way.
Soundtracks, both real and imaginary from Morton Feldman to The Fall. 'I am sitting in a room' in Stirling. In Stygian depths body molecules are rearranged by the shamanic noise rituals of Keiji Haino. On our back, in the dark, in a Paris church, immersed in the 'Occam Ocean' sound world of Éliane Radigue.
Connecting the local to the global and the global to the local: burn, stream, river, estuary, ocean. It's all just a matter of scale. No landscape is ever neutral.
From Hill to Sea.
From the Kingdom of Fife and beyond
Autumn Drive Old Military Road To Trinafour Scottish Highlands Of Scotland
Tour Scotland video of an Autumn road trip drive on General Wade's old Military single track road on ancestry visit to Trinafour in Highland Perthshire. Between 1728 and 1730, Wade's men built the road from Dunkeld to Inverness, connecting Perth and Inverness. By July 1728 Wade was able to write in a letter that he had 300 working on the road, that 15 miles of it were finished and that he hoped to have 40 miles completed by October.The road from Crieff led north by the Sma' Glen and Amutree through Glen Cochil and into Aberfeldy by what is now called Old Crieff Road. To the north of the bridge it pioneered the present day route to Tummel Bridge, Trinafour and Dainacardoch where it joined the road from Dunkeld to Inverness in the Highlands