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Kincardine, Fife. / 56.069; -3.719. Kincardine ( / kɪnˈkɑːrdɪn / kin-KAR-din; Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn [2]) 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. [3] It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port.
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin was a diplomat and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1799 and 1803. He spent much of his fortune smuggling marble sculptures from the Athens Parthenon out of the Ottoman Empire. [8] They are now commonly referred to as the Elgin Marbles.
Kincardineshire. Kincardineshire or the County of Kincardine, also known as the Mearns (from the Scottish Gaelic A' Mhaoirne meaning "the stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of north-east Scotland. It is bounded by Aberdeenshire on the north, and by Angus on the south-west.
Kincardine, Fife, a town on the River Forth, Scotland. Kincardine Bridge, a bridge which spans the Firth of Forth. Kincardineshire, a historic county. Kincardine, Aberdeenshire, now abandoned. Kincardine and Deeside, a former local government district. Kincardine and Mearns, a current local government district. Kincardine, Sutherland.
Kincardine and Deeside was one of five local government districts in the Grampian region of Scotland. It was created in 1975 and abolished in 1996, when the area was included in the Aberdeenshire council area .
A map of the bridge and the surrounding river from 1945. The bridge was constructed between 1932 and 1936, to a design by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, Consulting Engineers, [3] and Architect, Donald Watson. It was the first road crossing of the River Forth downstream of Stirling, completed nearly thirty years before the Forth Road Bridge ...
Kincardine ( / ˌkɪnˈkɑːrdən / kin-KAR-dən) is a municipality located on the shores of Lake Huron in Bruce County in the province of Ontario, Canada. The current municipality was created in 1999 by the amalgamation of the Town of Kincardine, the Township of Kincardine, and the Township of Bruce. The municipality had a population of 11,389 ...
People from Kincardine, Fife (20 P) Pages in category "Kincardine, Fife" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.