Kinghorn

Coordinates: 56°04′N 3°10′W / 56.07°N 3.17°W / 56.07; -3.17

Kinghorn ( listen ) is a town in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh. According to the 2008 population estimate, the town has a population of 2,930.

Known as the place where King Alexander III of Scotland died, it lies on the A921 road and the Fife Coastal Path. Kinghorn railway station is on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Fife Circle railway lines. Kinghorn only has a primary school, so high school pupils must travel by bus to Balwearie High School in Kirkcaldy.

The town's lifeboat station is one of Scotland's busiest - regularly getting called out to all sorts of emergencies in the Firth. Currently stationed at Kinghorn is an Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat, B-836 "Tommy Niven".

History

The meaning of the name Kinghorn (or Kin-gorn ( listen , with stress on the latter syllable, as it was pronounced locally until at least the early twentieth century) comes from Scottish Gaelic ceann gronn, meaning "head of the marsh".

Kinghorn (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Kinghorn in Fife was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Kinghorn, Burntisland, Dysart and Kirkcaldy formed the Dysart district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

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Kinghorn (disambiguation)

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