Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Halbeath

Halbeath, a collier village in Dunfermline parish, Fife, with a station on the Dunfermline and Thornton section of the North British, 2¼ miles ENE of Dunfermline town, under which it has a post and telegraph office. Pop. (1861) 568, (1871) 800, (1881) 918.—Ord. Sur., sh40, 1867.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a collier village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dunfermline ScoP       Fife ScoCnty

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