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49: 641: 57: 132:. To the southeast, the artificial Raith Lake was formed by the damming of the Dronachy Burn in 1811 and 1812. From the late nineteenth century onwards, tracts of land of the Raith Estate were sold off and developed for housing and to form the town's 558: 136:, expanding Kirkcaldy westwards. The modern housing estate bearing the Raith name dates from the latter part of the 20th century, long after the origins of the football team. 99:
fractionation plant, may also be in reference to this wider area or may refer to an actual fort on this hill, distinct to the one naming the area.
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Raith House and the 19th-century folly Raith Tower sit on Cormie Hill to the west of Kirkcaldy. The former was designed by
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Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical
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A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan
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History of the county of Fife: from the earliest period to the present time
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was once theorised to have been fought here in 596 AD. Raith Hill, west of
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in the 1780s and the library and garden remodelled in 1899 by
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The name is found in Kirkcaldy's professional football team,
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56°06′36″N 3°14′06″W / 56.110°N 3.235°W / 56.110; -3.235


Scottish Gaelic
Fife
Loch Gelly
Kirkcaldy
Battle of Raith
Auchtertool
Mossmorran
Raith Rovers
Cowdenbeath
Cowdenbeath F. C.
James Smith
Palladian style
James Playfair
Robert Lorimer
Beveridge Park
Robert Ferguson of Raith
Ronald Craufurd Ferguson
John Melville of Raith
Lord Raith, Monymaill and Balwearie
The Place-Names of Fife, Volume One
ISBN
1-900289-77-6
The Place-Names of Fife, Volume One
ISBN
1-900289-77-6
ISBN
978-1-84588-386-7

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