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Offices in Glenrothes, Fife

Glenrothes

Glenrothes is a large town in the heart of Fife which makes no pretence at being attractive. It is a planned new town of the late 1940s, in the brutalist idiom of the time and has grown to be Fife's second=largest town.

Today Glenrothes is an administrative centre and since the 1980s a centre of the "Silicon Glen" electronic industry. Manufacturing and engineering remain important to the town's economy. (Read more)