Steelend
| Steelend | |
| Fife | |
|---|---|
 Steelend in 2006 | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT036924 |
| Location: | 56°6’43"N, 3°32’56"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 320 (1991) |
| Post town: | Dunfermline |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Fife |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Dunfermline & West Fife |
Steelend is a former mining village in western Fife, on the B914 road approximately three-quarters of a mile east of the village of Saline and four miles north-west of Dunfermline. The 1991 census recorded a population of 320.
To the south of the village is Bandrum Hill, on top of which is a large standing stone,[1] which are accessible from Steelend by a path. To the north of the village is the eastern end of Saline Glen, which carries the Saline Burn and a footpath which leads west into the centre of Saline.
The village is without a church; there was once a kirk in the village but it was demolished in the 1980s.[2]
Society
The village has a community centre[3] and the Steelend Miners Welfare Club.
The now-defunct Steelend Victoria F.C. were based at Woodside Park on the east side of the village until 2013 when the club folded.[4]
History
The name of the village comes from a farm on Saline Hill north of Steelend.[5]
Coal mining was the major industry in Steelend for generations, the mine's having been created by Wilson and Clyde Coal Co. The mine closed in 1965.[6] In 1960 an episode of the BBC drama series Doctor Finlay's Casebook was filmed in Steelend: in the episode the doctor is called out to a lad trapped in a mine.
A goods railway station once existed to the east of the village on the West of Fife Mineral Railway.[7] The station served the several collieries that once operated nearby to Steelend, which included Sunnybraes Colliery, Saline Valley Colliery, Killernie Colliery and North Steelend Colliery.
References
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Bandrum
- ↑ "Former Steelend Church". http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/8063/name/Former+Steelend+Church+Saline+Fife.
- ↑ "Steelend Community Leisure Centre". https://www.fife.gov.uk/facilities/community-centre/steelend-community-leisure-centre.
- ↑ "Junior side Steelend Victoria fold". https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/sport/13515404.junior-side-steelend-victoria-fold/.
- ↑ "Steelend". Gazetteer for Scotland. https://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst57.html. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
- ↑ he Story of a Steelend Miner: Fife Pits
- ↑ "Steelend Goods". https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/S/Steelend_Goods/.