Cowdenbeath
Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is located 5 miles north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town developed around the substantial coalfields of the area and became a Police Burgh in 1890. Inning accordance with population stats from 2008, Cowdenbeath has a permanent population of around 14081. Among this number, 48.5 per cent are male and 51.5 per cent are female, which is consistent with the proportional split by gender in both the Fife and Scottish populations. Prior to 1850, Cowdenbeath was merely a group of farms divided into four districts named after nearby farms. Local inhabitants of these focal points of development, which were merging into a single town, assembled to pick a name for the emerging town. The eventual choice was limited to either White Threshes or Cowdenbeath. The arrival of the Oakley Iron Company around 1850 was to have a continued effect upon Cowdenbeath, making the name tantamount with coal-mining for almost 100 years. Shafts were sunk in the area of the old Foulford Washer. It was in the mining for ore that the discoveries of the coal seams were made, and pits were sunk at every corner of the town. Characterising the northern boundary of Cowdenbeath is a rural landscape, which merges into the Lochore Meadows Country Park, 'The Meadies'. This previously commercial and mining landscape, which was the home of a range of pit-heads including the Mary Pit, whose winding equipment structure dominates the park as a memorial to its considerable mining history, is at present a very appealing area which provides leisure and recreational outdoor amenities. For all your home upgrades, take care to utilize reputable professionals in Cowdenbeath to guarantee quality.
