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Dist:0.1km<br/>Ripening crops at Castlandhill Farm, the houses are former naval married quarters.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.3km<br/>Big House is in there too. MOD property I think.
©Simon Johnston
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the Castlekey (aka Churchill) storage bunker for naval ships' heavy oil fuel. It was built during WW1 then extended, reinforced and buried during WW2. It has now been under demolition since 2008 and looks like taking a lot longer before the job is completed, despite the use of explosives, compressed air and heavy earth-moving equipment. Not surprising; its outer walls were 8.0 metres thick and it had a 7.5 metre thick reinforced concrete roof supported by over 2,500 columns, each 1.2 metres in diameter. It covers an area of 9.5 acres.
©James Allan
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©Richard Webb
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©Robert Struthers
Dist:0.4km<br/>A woodland survivor, surrounded by the sheds of the Europarc. Hidden away in the woods is a fundamental benchmark, used by the Ordnance Survey to determine heights.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>Triangulation Pillar on Castlandhill reservoir.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.5km<br/>The area in the foreground is shown as oil storage tanks on older maps, but I'm not sure what the deeper buildings beyond were used for - they may all have been part of the oil storage depot. For an earlier view (Sept. 2007) from the same spot see [[548528]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>This doocot and the woods in which it stands used to be inaccessible to the public because it was within the confines of Rosyth Naval Base. When the MOD reduced the size of the base, large parts of it were made available for other uses.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.5km<br/>This site is now demolished. This was the main steam pump house containing four horizontal duplex tandem triple-expansion non-rotative pumping engines. These were built by Worthington-Simpson in 1917 and stopped in 1994. These were each of 366 brake horsepower and used to pump heavy fuel oil. An exterior view is here [[415672]]. A set of three is preserved at Lyness on Hoy.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was the Ministry of Defence facility used to refuel warships at Rosyth. Used magnificent steam pumps in the light coloured building. A similar facility is preserved at Lyness. This one is now demolished.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.5km<br/>The crow-step gabled doocot that was associated with Rosyth castle. It still contains more than 1,500 nest boxes and you can see the figure of a serpent above the entrance door of this well-preserved and quite ornate building.
©James Allan
Dist:0.6km<br/>When the MOD greatly reduced the size of the naval base at Rosyth the facilities for the pastoral care of the sailors and their families was no longer needed. A consequence of this was the closure of some churches, this is a picture of the Catholic Church of St Peter and St Paul which is closed and awaiting a decision on its future.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.6km<br/>Brownfield site being cleared off Milne Road.
©Richard Webb
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©Roger Davies

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