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[[File:The fleet returns home - geograph.org.uk - 58410.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The mouth of the Leven]] | [[File:The fleet returns home - geograph.org.uk - 58410.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The mouth of the Leven]] | ||
The '''River Leven''' is a river in [[Fife]] which flows from [[Loch Leven]] in [[Kinross-shire]] into the [[Firth of Forth]] at the town of [[Leven, Fife]]. | The '''River Leven''' is a river in [[Fife]] which flows from [[Loch Leven, Kinross-shire|Loch Leven]] in [[Kinross-shire]] into the [[Firth of Forth]] at the town of [[Leven, Fife]]. | ||
The river is home to a good stock of brown trout and hosts a run of sea trout and Atlantic salmon. The estuary has bass and mullet. | The river is home to a good stock of brown trout and hosts a run of sea trout and Atlantic salmon. The estuary has bass and mullet. | ||
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==Outside links== | ==Outside links== | ||
*http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst60.html Gazetteer on the river] | *[http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst60.html Gazetteer on the river] | ||
*[http://www.fishforth.co.uk/fdsb Forth District Salmon Fishery Board] | *[http://www.fishforth.co.uk/fdsb Forth District Salmon Fishery Board] | ||
*[http://www.fishforth.co.uk/rfft River Forth Fisheries Trust] | *[http://www.fishforth.co.uk/rfft River Forth Fisheries Trust] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:32, 14 March 2013
The River Leven is a river in Fife which flows from Loch Leven in Kinross-shire into the Firth of Forth at the town of Leven, Fife.
The river is home to a good stock of brown trout and hosts a run of sea trout and Atlantic salmon. The estuary has bass and mullet.
In previous centuries its water was used to power linen mills on its banks, particularly near Markinch, as well as three paper mills: Smith Anderson in Leslie and Tullis Russell and John Dixon of Markinch.