Blairhall

Blairhall
Blairhall village
Blairhall is located in Fife
Blairhall
Blairhall
Location within Fife
Population930 (2022)[1]
Council area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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56°05′18″N 3°36′08″W / 56.0882°N 3.6023°W / 56.0882; -3.6023

Blairhall is a village in West Fife, Scotland. It is situated 1.1 miles (1.77 km) west of Comrie, and 6.7 miles (10.783 km) west of Dunfermline.[2] The village was originally a small hamlet but was expanded in 1911 to house the miners from a nearby colliery. Today Blairhall has a primary school and a community leisure centre. The village has a population of around 1000 people.[3]

Nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south, beyond Shiresmill, and to the west of the Bluther Burn, stands the 17th-century laird's house of Blairhall, which was the birthplace (c.1630) of Sir William Bruce, later baronet of Balcaskie and then Kinross, and Surveyor-General to King Charles II.[4]

In 2008, a further expansion of the village took place to the northwest, in an area called the Coo Park which was formerly the grounds of Comrie Castle. The park was landscaped with several parkland trees and a rigg-and-furrow system of cultivation from earlier times was evident. The house was owned by a James Anderson of Blairgowrie in the 1850s, but was demolished in the early 1960s. In the grounds there remain parkland trees, an overgrown ha-ha and the site of a curling pond.[5]

  1. ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Blairhall". fifedirect.org.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  3. ^ "About Blairhall". fifedirect.org.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Blairhall". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
  5. ^ "Comrie Castle". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 28 March 2014.