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KINGHORN , a royal and police burgh of Fifeshire, Scotland . Pop. (Igor), 155o. It is situated on the Firth of Forth, 24 M.E. by N. of Burntisland, on the North British railway. The public buildings include a library and town- hall
industries
thread -making in vogue, which employed the women while the men were at sea. Alexander III. created Kinghorn a burgh , but his connexion with the town proved fatal to him. As he was riding from Inverkeithing on the 12th of March 1286 he was thrown by his horse and fell over the cliffs, since called King's Wud End, a little to the west of the burgh, and killed. A monument was erected in 1887 to mark the supposed scene of the accident. The Witch Hill used to be the place of execution of those poor wretches. King-horn belongs to the Kirkcaldy district
burghs. At PETTYCUR, I M. to the south
its size, and at Kinghorn Ness a battery has been established in connexion with the fortifications on Inchkeith. The hill Cf. Wallace. Geog. Distr. Animals, ii. 315.above the battery was purchased by government in 1903 and is used as a point of observation. About 1 m. to the north of Kinghorn is the estate of Grange, which belonged to Sir William Kirkcaldy. INcHREITH, an island in the fairway of the Firth of Forth, 22 m. S. by E. of Kinghorn and 31 M. N. by E. of Leith, belongs to the parish of 'Kinghorn. It has a north-westerly and south
rock
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