Lassodie is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1192°, -3.4089°.

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Lassodie

Lassodie in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Lassodie 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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Lassodie is an abandoned settlement located two miles south-west of Kelty, between Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath, in Fife.

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History

The name Lassodie was a collective for three settlements, named Old Rows, New Rows (or Parley), and Fairfield, all lying on a road from Kingseat to a series of mines. The name derives from the Scots Gaelic lios aodann, meaning "garden on the brow of a hill". The earliest known record of the name is as "Lassody", describing a tower in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland of 1654. The first known use of the area was as the site of a mill in the 18th century, and then as a farm, known as Braehead, belonging to the Dewar family, who held the Lairdship of Lassodie. The right to collect coal was leased from 1825 at the latest, and pit mining is known to have taken place in the area from 1856. In 1860,…

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