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Collessie
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thumb|A traditionally thatched cottage, Collessie, Fife thumb|The old lanes of Collessie, Fife Collessie is a village and parish of Fife, Scotland. The village is set on a small hillock centred on a historic church. Due to rerouting of roads, it now lies north of the A91. Though a railway embankment was constructed through the middle of the village in the 19th century, it retains many of its traditional 17th–18th century houses. In recent years some of the older houses have been re-roofed in traditional thatch.
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Place details
- Locality
- Collessie
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1921
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- The old lanes of Collessie, Fife.JPG
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- Collessie
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Name
- Demographics
- Notable locations
- The Church
- The Churchyard
- The Melville Tomb
- Other notable interments
- The school
- Notable residents
- References
thumb|A traditionally thatched cottage, Collessie, Fife thumb|The old lanes of Collessie, Fife Collessie is a village and parish of Fife, Scotland. The village is set on a small hillock centred on a historic church. Due to rerouting of roads, it now lies north of the A91. Though a railway embankment was constructed through the middle of the village in the 19th century, it retains many of its traditional 17th–18th century houses. In recent years some of the older houses have been re-roofed in traditional thatch.
== Name == Collessie's name derives from Scottish Gaelic although the exact derivation is unknown. The first element is either cùl (behind) or cùil (nook) and the last element may be either eas (waterfall) or lios (enclosure, garden).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Collessie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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