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Colinsburgh, a village of Kilconquhar parish, in the East Neuk of Fife. It stands within 2 miles of, and 120 feet above, the Firth of Forth, 1¾ mile N by W of Kilconquhar station, this being 12½ miles E of Thornton Junetion, and 32½ NE of Edinburgh. Founded by and named after Colin, third Earl of Balcarres, about 1718, it is a burgh of barony; and has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the Commercial Bank, gasworks (1841), an hotel, a public school, a U.P. church (1800; 300 sittings), agricultural and horticultural societies, a Thursday market, and fairs on the second Thursday of June and October. Pop. (1841) 482, (1861), 438, (1871) 351, (1881) 382.—Ord. Sur., sh. 41,1857.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kilconquhar Parish Fife County |
| Place: | Colinsburgh |
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