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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Colinsburgh like this:
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.
Colinsburgh is now part of FIFE Council. Click here for graphs and data of how FIFE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Colinsburgh itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Colinsburgh in Fife | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21768
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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