Kingseat

This article is about the village in Fife, Scotland. For the village in Aberdeenshire, see Kingseat, Aberdeenshire. For the community in New Zealand, see Kingseat, Auckland.
Kingseat
Halfway House Hotel in the centre of the village
Kingseat is located in Fife
Kingseat
Kingseat
Location within Fife
Population860 (2022)[1]
Council area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
List of places
UK
Scotland
56°05′51″N 3°24′28″W / 56.09737°N 3.40765°W / 56.09737; -3.40765

Kingseat is a village in Fife, Scotland, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Dunfermline. It was originally a coal mining village with the first pits sunk in the area in the mid 1800s.[2] The name of the village is thought locally to have originated from when the king would visit the area[3] to look out onto the River Forth and to Arthur's Seat.[4]

  1. ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Home". kingseat.info. Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: Kingseat". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023.
  4. ^ 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.