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Spring Road Trip Drive To Visit Cowdenbeath West Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of an April road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, to visit Cowdenbeath in West Fife. The town of Cowdenbeath grew up around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a Police Burgh in 1890. It is alleged that the infamous graverobbers Burke and Hare sourced some of their cadavers from local cemetery, to supply to the Scottish surgeon Robert Knox for dissection. When the actual name of Cowdenbeath came into being is not known, but it is thought to have originated when turnpike roads were first made and that it marked the spot of an inn and later of a tollhouse erected in the 17th century. Cowdenbeath first came into prominence around 1820 as a stop on the north bound coaching route to Perth, Perthshire. The surname Beath was first found in Fife, at the Hill of Beath, a hill and a village in Fife, Scotland just outside Dunfermline and joined to Cowdenbeath. The village is best known as the location of the meeting of the Covenanters at which John Blackadder was one of the preachers in the summer of 1670. As of 1896, it had a population of about 1,300 people. Beath has been spelled Beath, Beeth, Beith, Bait, Baith and others. Robert Beath, aged 25, arrived in South Australia in 1852 aboard the ship Medina; Andrew Beath, born 1829, aged 45, was a Scottish agricultural labourer, from Fife who travelled from Glasgow aboard the ship Oamaru arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 17th February 1875; William Beath landed in Virginia, America, in 1713; Adam Beath landed in Charlestown, Massachusetts, America, in 1716; Walter Beath arrived in New England, America, in 1718; Robert Beath settled in Charleston, South Carolina, America, in 1766; Henry and Robert Beath arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America, in 1830. Coronavirus travel restrictions have now been eased in Scotland, it is now possible to travel out of your local area for non essential reasons.