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Hill of Beath is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.0958°, -3.3681°.

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Hill of Beath

Hill of Beath in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

Farmland near Cowdenbeath - geograph.org.uk - 1118539 — Paul McIlroy — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Hill of Beath 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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Hill of Beath ( ; Scots: Hill o Beath) is a village in Fife, Scotland, just outside Dunfermline and joined to Cowdenbeath. The village is named for the nearby hill of the same name.

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On 16 June 1670, the Hill of Beath was the location of a celebrated meeting of the Covenanters at which preachers John Blackadder and John Dickson officiated. It was described as "a great gathering of persons who came from the east of Fife and as far west as Stirling". The village at this location was built and owned by the Fife Coal Company, which rented the cottages to the miners for the duration of their employment in the mine. In 1896 the village population was about 1,300. As an experiment, a public house was started in June 1896 using the Gothenburg system, with any profits to be used for public works. An initial report suggested it was helping to reduce drunkenness despite the ease…

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