Kingseat
- Not to be confused with Kingseat, Aberdeenshire
| Kingseat | |
| Fife | |
|---|---|
 The Halfway House Hotel, Kingseat | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT125902 |
| Location: | 56°5’51"N, 3°24’28"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | KY12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Fife |
Kingseat is a village in Fife a mile and a half north-east of Dunfermline. It was originally a coal mining village with the first pits sunk in the area in 1800.[1] The name of the village is thought locally to have originated from when the king would visit the area[2] to look out onto the River Forth and to Arthur's Seat.[3]
Amenities
The village has a public park which includes a play area and a football pitch.[4] There is also a Community Leisure Centre,[5] a bowling club,[6] a cattery,[7] and formerly a shop with a post office.[8] The shop and post office has now been converted into a house.
There used to be a hotel in the centre of the village, The Halfway House, but it closed unexpectedly in early 2015.[9] The building was demolished in November 2020.[10]
The village does not have its own primary school and instead falls under the catchment area for Townhill Primary School.[11]
References
- ↑ "Home". http://www.kingseat.info/. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ↑ "Fife Place-name Data :: Kingseat". https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=473.
- ↑ Pitcairn, Sheila (2000). History of the Old "Fitpaths"and Streets of Dunfermline, Then and Now, Also Crossford, Halbeath, Rosyth, Townhill & Wellwood. Dunfermline: Pitcairn Publications. p. 449.
- ↑ "Kingseat Public Park". https://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=B0898F7F-B121-000B-70E4D15EDBE0AC00. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "Kingseat Community Leisure Centre". http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=30D8D81C-0E58-427D-BCE25587822E77AA. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "Kingseat Bowling Club". http://bowlsclub.org/club/3746/. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "Lochview Cattery - Home" (in en). http://www.lochviewcattery.co.uk/. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "Businesses in Kingseat". http://www.kingseat.info/local_businesses.html. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "Villagers uncertain over Kingseat hotel’s future" (in en). http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/13519011.Villagers_uncertain_over_Kingseat_hotel_rsquo_s_future/. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ "End of an era as hotel comes down" (in en). https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/18887225.end-era-demolition-starts-halfway-house-hotel-kingseat/.
- ↑ "Townhill Primary School". http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=246B0996-3FF1-464B-87A4E0EDC52D8AF6. Retrieved 27 January 2017.