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©Paul McIlroy
This is the exit for Dunfermline (A823) off the Pitreavie Roundabout. The building in the background is the headquarters of The Dunfermline Building Society. A front view can be seen in square NT1185
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking west along the A823(M). The white and blue building on the right is occupied by Sky Television.
©Robert Struthers
Dist:0.3km<br/>This bridge crosses the A823(M) motorway and gives access to fields.
©Robert Struthers
Dist:0.3km<br/>This old wartime pillbox is near the former RAF Pitreavie. It is very well sealed up.
©Robert Struthers
Dist:0.4km<br/>I believe a halt is not quite a fully fledged station. Rosyth Halt is one of these not-quite-a-stations on the Dunfermline branch line from Edinburgh.
©Simon Johnston
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©kim traynor
Dist:0.4km<br/>The site featured prominently in the Battle of Inverkeithing. For more information, see the relevant entry in the Annals of Dunfermline (1879) via the following http://www.tulbol.demon.co.uk/dunfermline/annals11.htm where it is referred to as the Battle of Pitreavie. "17th July, 1651, being a thursday, cromwell's armie landit heir, who, on the sabbath yreftir, being the 20 day of the sd month, battell being beside pitreavie, killed an cutt manie of or men, robbed and plunderit all." -- Kirk Session Records of Dunfermline
©kim traynor
Dist:0.4km<br/>On 20 July 1651, a Scottish army comprising Covenanters and Royalists fighting under the flag of Charles II were defeated whilst attempting to throw back a Cromwellian invasion force. For Clan MacLean the slaughter at the battle was particularly horrific - out of the original contingent of 800, some 760 clansmen were killed, including their chief, Sir Hector Ruadh MacLean. The cairn in the picture was erected on the 350th anniversary of the battle by the Clan MacLean Heritage Trust.
©Euan Nelson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Residential street.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>Late-Victorian edifice on the site of Pitreavie Castle where the last fighting took place in the Battle of Inverkeithing in 1651. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitreavie_Castle
©kim traynor
Dist:0.4km<br/>Situated at the corner of Park Road and Queensferry Road. The anchor is to acknowledge the naval connection to Rosyth.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.5km<br/>This old dovecot is in the grounds of the former Pitreavie Castle estate.
©Robert Struthers
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking east along the A823(M).
©Robert Struthers
Dist:0.5km<br/>Row of shops on the corner with Park Road.
©Richard Webb

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