Crossford is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.0617°, -3.5017°.

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Crossford

Crossford in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Crossford is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Crossford is a small village located in West Fife, Scotland. Its population was 2,358 in 2011. It is 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) west of the city Dunfermline, east of Cairneyhill, astride the A994. The village has mixed housing with large housing estates on the southwest and northwest ends. Most residents work either locally or commute to Edinburgh or Glasgow. Crossford lies north of the Firth of Forth and 17 mi (27 km) from Edinburgh.

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Crossford can trace its history back into the distant past with Bronze Age discoveries having been made on Craigs Farm indicating agricultural activity into antiquity. Crossford is said to take its name from the ford crossed by monks on their way between the abbeys of Dunfermline and Culross. Photographs are available online of where the railway was. An 1856 map shows a brewery at the west end of the village, and whinstone quarry to the north of the main road. During World War I the modern day Keavil House Hotel was used by the Admiralty as a location to base high-ranking officers, the naval base at Rosyth (Rosyth Dockyard) being of a much greater size and importance at the time. During…

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