Kingseat

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.