Cowdenbeath
Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It lies 5 miles north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town formed around the sizeable coalfields of the region and became a Police Burgh in 1890. Based upon population data from 2008, Cowdenbeath has a permanent population of around 14081. Among this number, 48.5 percent are male and 51.5 percent are female, which is consistent with the proportional split by gender in both the Fife and Scottish populations. Before 1850, Cowdenbeath was just a group of farms divided into 4 districts named after nearby farms. Regional citizens of these centerpieces of growth, which were merging into a single town, assembled to choose a name for the emerging town. The ultimate 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 nearly 100 years. Shafts were sunk in the vicinity 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 perimeter of Cowdenbeath is a rural landscape, which blends into the Lochore Meadows Country Park, 'The Meadies'. This formerly commercial and mining landscape, which was the home of various pit-heads including the Mary Pit, whose winding gear structure dominates the park as a memorial to its noteworthy mining history, is at present an extremely charming area which offers leisure and recreational outdoor facilities. For all of your house upgrades, make sure to work with credible contractors in Cowdenbeath to guarantee quality.
