Kincardine on Forth

Kincardine on Forth (en Gaélique écossais Cinn Chàrdainn), est un village d'Écosse au nord du Firth of Forth dans le Fife.

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Kincardine, Fife

Kincardine or Kincardine-on-Forth is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. The town was given the status of a burgh of barony in 1663. It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port. The townscape retains many good examples of Scottish vernacular buildings from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, although it was greatly altered during the construction of Kincardine Bridge in 1932–1936. It is in the civil parish of Tulliallan.

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Kincardine railway station

Kincardine railway station served the town of Kincardine, Fife, Scotland from 1893 to 1930 on the Kincardine Line.

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Kincardine Bridge

The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Firth of Forth from Falkirk to Kincardine, Fife, Scotland.

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River Forth

The River Forth is a major river in central Scotland, 47 km long, which drains into the North Sea on the east coast of the country. Its drainage basin covers much of Stirlingshire in Scotland's Central Belt. The Gaelic name for the upper reach of the river, above Stirling, is Abhainn Dubh, meaning "black river". The name for the river below the tidal reach is Uisge For.

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Tulliallan Castle

Tulliallan Castle is a large house in Kincardine, Fife, Scotland. It is the second structure to have the name, and is a mixture of Gothic and Italian style architecture set amid some 90 acres of parkland just north of where the Kincardine Bridge spans the Firth of Forth. It has been the home of the Scottish Police College since 1954. On 1 April 2013, Tulliallan Castle became the headquarters of Police Scotland, but in 2014 the service's headquarters temporarily relocated to nearby Stirling in the former Central Scotland Police HQ.

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Le village reçoit le statut de bourg de baronnie en 1663. Il s'agissait autrefois d'un petit port raisonnablement prospère. Le paysage urbain conserve de nombreux exemples de bâtiments vernaculaires écossais des XVIIe, XVIIIe et début du XIXe siècles, bien qu'il ait été considérablement modifié lors de la construction du pont Kincardine en 1932-1936.