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INVERKEITHING , a royal and See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police See also:

burgh of Fifeshire, See also:

Scotland. Pop. (1901) 1676. It is situated on an inner See also:

BAY

bay of the See also:

SHORE

shore of the See also:

Firth of Forth, 31 M. S.E. of See also:

Dunfermline and 134 M. N.W. of See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh by the See also:

North See also:

BRITISH

British railway, via the Forth See also:

BRIDGE

Bridge. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are tanning, See also:

SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding, milling, See also:

paper-making, rope-making and See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-making. With See also:

Stirling, Dunfermline, See also:

CULROSS (locally pronounced Coo-rus)

Culross and See also:

QUEENSFERRY

Queensferry, Inverkeithing returns one member to See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament (the Stirling See also:

DISTRICT

district burghs). It received its See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter from See also:

David I. St See also:

Peter's, the See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

church, See also:

DATES

dates from the 12th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but having been nearly destroyed by See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire was rebuilt in 1826 in the See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

style, the See also:

ancient See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower, however, being preserved. See also:

SIR

Sir See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel Greig, the See also:

FATHER

father of the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

NAVY

navy and designer of the fortifications at Cronstadt, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Inverkeithing in 1735. About See also:

HALF

half-way towards Dunfermline the See also:

BATTLE

battle of Inverkeithing or Pitreavie took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place on the 20th of See also:

JULY

July 165o, when See also:

Cromwell's forces defeated the Royalists.

A mile and a half to the See also:

south lies NORTH QUEENSFERRY (pop. 594), the first railway station on the north See also:

side of the Forth Bridge. A little to the See also:

west lies the bay of ST See also:

MARGARET'S See also:

HOPE, which in 1903 was acquired by the See also:

government as the site for the See also:

NAVAL

naval See also:

BASE

base of Rosyth, so named from the neighbouring ruined See also:

castle of RosyTH, once the See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of See also:

Queen Margaret, wife of See also:

Malcolm Canmore. On the west side of the Forth Bridge, in the fairway, lies the rocky islet of BIMAR with a lighthouse, and immediately to the See also:

east is the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of INCEGARVIE (Gaelic, " the rough island "), which once contained a castle used as a See also:

State See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, the ruins of which were removed to make way for one of the piers of the Forth Bridge.

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