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[edit] Queen Margaret Hospital
Queen Margaret is the main general hospital for Dunfermline and the west fife catchment area.[12] The hospital was built in two stages between 1985 and 1993. [10] The hospital has many services including an A&E department and a nearby railway station.[13]
[edit] Lynebank Hospital
Lynebank, opened in 1968. [11] The hospital deals primarily with pyschatric and paediatric patients. [14]
[edit] Education
[edit] Primary Schools
Dunfermline has 16 primary schools:
- Bellyeoman Primary School
- Canmore Primary School
- Commercial Primary School
- Duloch School
- Lynburn Primary School
- Masterton Primary School
- McLean Primary School
- Milesmark Primary School
- Pitcorthie Primary School
- Pitreavie Primary School
- Pittencrieff Primary School
- St.Leonard's Primary School
- St.Margaret's RC Primary School
- Touch Primary School
- Townhill Primary School
- Wellwood Primary School
[edit] Secondary Schools
There are four High Schools in Dunfermline. These are:
[edit] Dunfermline High School
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Dunfermline High School is one of the oldest and most populated high schools in Scotland, founded in 1120. [15].
[edit] Queen Anne High School
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Queen Anne High School is a large non-denominational secondary school of around 1,750. It is the fifth largest in Scotland [16] and serves pupils in the north of Dunfermline.
[edit] Woodmill High School
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Woodmill High School is located in Dunfermline.
[edit] St Columba's High School
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St Columba's is a Roman Catholic High School, one of only two in Fife, serving West Fife. It has an expansive catchment area, stretching from Ballingry in the North to North Queensferry in the South and Kincardine in the West to Lochgelly in the east.
[edit] Special Schools
Calaiswood School, located in the Duloch Schools Campus, next to Duloch Primary, part of Duloch Schools. Is is a purpose-built special school offering an elaborated curriculum for pupils with additional support needs from nursery age to 18. Calaiswood replaces the former - Robert Henryson and Headwell schools. There is also a DSE ( Department of Special Education ) at Woodmill HS.
[edit] Further Education
Dunfermline is home to Carnegie College (formerly Lauder College), located in the Halbeath area to the east of the town.
Dunfermline is within commuting distance for universities in Edinburgh,St. Andrews, Stirling, Dundee and Glasgow.
[edit] Transport
[edit] Railway Stations
Dunfermline is served by two railway stations: Dunfermline Town and Dunfermline Queen Margaret. Dunfermline Town was formerly known as Dunfermline Lower.
Dunfermline Town railway station is located southeast of the city centre and is served on the Fife Circle Line. [17]
Dunfermline Queen Margaret railway station is located on Whitefield Road primarily for hospital traffic and is also served on the Fife circle line. [18]
Rosyth and Inverkeithing are also railway stations in close proximity to the town. [19] [20]
[edit] Dunfermline Bus Station
The bus station is sited on Queen Ann Street/Randolph Street.
[edit] Political subdivisions
The original plans for reform of local government in the early 1970s envisaged splitting Fife between two regions based in Ediburgh and Dundee but after public protest the plans were dropped and Fife became a separate region with Dunfermline one of its constituent districts.
Since 1996 Dunfermline has been included in the Fife unitary area. (See: Subdivisions of Scotland)
See A. H. Millar’s Fife: Pictorial and Historical (2 vols,, 5895); and Sheriff Alneas Mackay’s History of Fife and Kinross (189?).
[edit] Town twinning
[edit] Notable people
- Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919), is the most celebrated of all Dunfermline's sons, as he is certainly Dunfermline's greatest benefactor. He gave to his birthplace the free library and public baths, and, in 1903, the estate of Pittencrieff Park and Glen, rich in historical associations as well as natural charm, together with bonds yielding £25,000 a year, in trust for the maintenance of the park, the support of a theatre for the production of plays of the highest merit, the periodical exhibitions of works of art and science, the promotion of horticulture among the working classes and the encouragement of technical education in the district. So while New York's Carnegie Hall is much better known, Dunfermline has its own.
Other well-known people born in Dunfermline:
Notable residents include:
- David Ferguson (ca. 1533-1598), parish minister who made the first collection of Scottish proverbs (not published until 1641),
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- , Fife Council (2008) Population Estimates for Towns and Villages in Fife [1]
- , Fife Council (2006) Dunfermline Economic profile [2]
- , Origins of Gardener Societies at historyshelf.org. (accessed 18 March 2007)
- , Cooper, Robert L. D. (2000). An introduction to the origins and history of the Order of the Free Gardeners. London: Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle. ISBN 0-907655-475.
- , Fife Council (2006) Dunfermline Town Centre Fact Sheet [3]
- , Fife Council (2006) Fife Town Centres Audit [4]
- , Fife Council (2006) Town Centre Footfall report [5]
- , BBC news article Dunfermline to get £100m revamp [6]
- , BBC news article Dunfermline to get £100m revamp [7]
- , http://2dunfermline.co.uk/index.php?ID=1334
- , http://www.dunfermlinepress.co.uk/bygone_dunfermline/years/1960_1975.php?bygone_id=5
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