Cardenden

Cardenden
Fife
Houses in Cardenden
Location
Grid reference:	NT218953
Location:	56°8’38"N, 3°15’36"W
Data
Postcode:	KY5
Local Government
Council:	Fife

Cardenden is a town in Fife, standing on the south bank of the River Ore opposite Auchterderran. It is approximately 4 miles northwest of Kirkcaldy. Cardenden was named in 1848 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway for its new railway station. A former mining town, Cardenden had a reported population of 448 in 1891 that had increased to 2992 as of 2009.

Areas of Cardenden include Auchterderran, Bowhill, Dundonald, the Jamphlars, New Carden and Woodend. In 2008, plans were announced to create an ecovillage of 5,000 homes on a 1,200 acre site hereabouts.

Last Scottish duel

It is reported that last duel on Scottish soil took place in a field at Cardenbarns to the south of Cardenden. On 2 August 1826, a Kirkcaldy merchant named David Landale fought a duel with George Morgan, a Kirkcaldy banker and retired Lieutenant from the 77th Regiment of Foot. Morgan was killed by wounds received from a pistol ball. Landale was tried and subsequently cleared of his murder at Perth Sherrif Court.

The original pistols that David Landale used in the duel are housed in the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. The duel was the subject of an episode of Timewatch on BBC television, broadcast on 9 February 2007 entitled "The Last Duel". The site is now the location of the Fife Community Off Road Motorcycle Club.

Sport

• Football: Dundonald Bluebell FC junior football club

Outside links

• Gazeteer on Cardenden
• History of Cardenden
• 4th Fife Scout Group
• Scottish mining villages - Auchterderran Parish