Kinghorn
Kinghorn listen; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Gronna is the town and parish in Fife, Scotland. a seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh. According to the 2008 population estimate, the town has a population of 2,930.
Known as the place where King Alexander III of Scotland died, it lies on the A921 road and the Fife Coastal Path. Kinghorn railway station is on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Fife Circle railway lines. Kinghorn only has a primary school, so high school pupils must travel by bus to Balwearie High School in Kirkcaldy.
The town's lifeboat station is one of Scotland's busiest - regularly getting called out to any sorts of emergencies in the Firth. Currently stationed at Kinghorn is an Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat, B-836 "Tommy Niven".
The civil parish has a population of 4,201 in 2011.
Burntisland was in the past transmitted to as Little Kinghorn or Wester Kinghorn.
History
The meaning of the take Kinghorn or Kingorn Scottish Gaelic ceann gronn 'head of the marsh'.
The historic former Royal Burgh of Kinghorn lies on the cruise of Fife. The former royal castle at Kinghorn was frequently visited by the Scottish Court in the period of the chain of Dunkeld. The King's castle, controlling the seaway, stood on the headland above Pettycur. King Alexander III was returning on horseback to Kinghorn Castle to see his new wife Yolande of Dreux, when he fell and was found dead on the beach of Pettycur Bay in March 1286, making the succession crisis that led to the Wars of Scottish Independence.
A later structure, Glamis Tower or Glamis Castle, stood just behind the High Street. When Sir John Lyon married Princess Johanna in 1373, the daughter of King Robert II, her dowry sent Glamis Castle. Rebuilt in 1543, the castle was besieged by James Kirkcaldy of Grange in 1546 and fell. Both buildings throw totally disappeared and the sites built over in modern times.
During the Scottish Reformation, French troops commanded by Henri Cleutin and Captain Sarlabous sailed from Leith and fought with the Lords of the Congregation at Pettycur Bay on 7 January 1560. Kinghorn Castle remained an important possession of the Scottish Crown, and this was recognised by the imposing of the Earldom of Kinghorne in 1606.
In October 1589 the minister of Kinghorn parish, John Scrimgeour, was chosen by King James VI to accompany him on his voyage to meet his bride, Anne of Denmark, in Norway.
A burn, fed from the freshwater Kinghorn Loch above the town, once exposed the town with its water and subsequently presents the member of reference of power to direct or imposing to direct or imposing to drive the machinery of flax mills.
The old town was dramatically transformed in 1846 by the construction of the railway viaduct across the valley of the burn and the opening of Kinghorn Station by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway which had its terminus at Burntisland for ferries across the Forth to Granton. Much of the former horse ferry traffic from Pettycur Bay was lost to Burntisland. The huge viaduct mainly solid splits the original town in two and completely dominates the lower southern section.
Following the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge in 1890, the North British Railway started to promote Kinghorn's picturesque sheltered bay and beach as a resort, which led to considerable coding of the town.