Dalgety Bay
| Dalgety Bay | |||
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 2 ′ N , 3 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 9874 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | DUNFERMLINE | ||
| ZIP code section | KY | ||
| prefix | 01383 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Lieutenancy Area | Fife | ||
| Council area | Fife | ||
| Civil Parish | Dalgety | ||
| British Parliament | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Cowdenbeath | ||
Dalgety Bay is a newly built coastal town in the United Kingdom in 1962 on the south coast of Fife in the east of the Central Lowlands , Scotland with just under 10,000 inhabitants. The small town is located on the bay of the same name around 10 km southeast of Dunfermline on the north bank of the Firth of Forth with a view of the offshore island Inchcolm and the medieval Augustinian Abbey of Inchcolm Abbey . Across the bay is the historic town of Aberdour with the half-ruined castle complex Aberdour Castle . On the southeast opposite bank, about 26 kilometers by road, is the Scottish capital Edinburgh .
Dalgety Bay is in the area of the historic town of Dalgety , whose name the civil parish still bears.
history
Dalgety
The settlement history of Dalgety Bay dates back to the Middle Ages, when the village of Dalgety , after which the bay was named, developed around St Bridget's Kirk, first mentioned in a papal document in 1178 . The Donibristle estate went through the mother of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray (1565–1592), who came to be Earl's dignity in 1580 through his marriage to the eldest daughter of the regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531–1570) in Dalgety to the Earls of Moray , whose ancestral home it became around 1700. The 2nd Earl was murdered on the property in 1592, when Donibristle House burned down the first time. The young deceased was immortalized in the popular Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl O 'Moray .
At the beginning of the 17th century, Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline (1555-1622), Lord Chancellor of Scotland , added a miniature tower ( Dunfermline Aisle ) to St. Bridget with the family crypt on the ground floor and a comfortable room upstairs for separate participation at the fair.
Around 1800 the incumbent Count Moray had the place vacated, whereupon part of the population settled at the coal mines a little further north, where in 1830 a new church was built with Dalgety Kirk . Today only the ruins of St. Bridget Church testify to Dalgety's original history.
Dalgety Bay
In the 19th century only the stately Donibristle manor in the former Dalgety was still inhabited. During the First World War , Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray left part of the property to the Royal Naval Air Service , forerunner of the Royal Air Force , for the construction of an airfield.
With the construction of the Forth Road Bridge , a state-of-the-art motorway bridge over the Firth of Forth about 2 km west of the property from 1958, life came back to the history of settlements on Dalgety Bay. Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray , CEO of the family-owned real estate and urban development company, planned and built around Dalgety Bay and the family estate Donibristle in 1962 as an independent satellite town of Edinburgh. With the construction of the motorway bridge, the Scottish capital, located on the opposite bank of the inlet, can now also be easily reached by car, while a rail link has existed via the Forth Bridge since 1890 .
Dalgety Bay is the first private-initiative planned town ( New Town ) in Scotland.
Historic buildings
Historic buildings there are in addition to the two religious buildings St. Bridget and the parish church preserved parts of the mansion Donibristle House from the 17th and early 18th centuries; the greater part was lost in a fire in 1858. There are also the restored stately stables and the Donibristle Chapel , built in 1731, the Morays' private burial chapel, in which nine counts are buried. The manor house and chapel are listed in Category A of the Scottish Monument Classification and thus classified as nationally or internationally significant architectural monuments, the maintenance and management of which is carried out centrally by the Scottish authority Historic Scotland .
The stables, like Dalgety Kirk, are listed in the second of three categories, while St. Bridget is in the first.
About 2 km northwest of the town center is within the parish ( parish ) Dalgety, the Tower House Fordell Castle , built in 1580 and fully restored , which is classified as a category A monument.
Transport, infrastructure & others
Dalgety Bay is on the A921, the main thoroughfare south of Fife, approximately 2 miles east of the M90 motorway . Edinburgh International Airport is around 20 km away. With the opening of the Forth Bridge in 1890, the region was connected to the British rail network and the Donibristle Halt was established at the Gutshof, which was closed in 1959. Until the opening of Dalgety Bay station in 1998, the nearest stations were in the neighboring towns of Inverkeithing and Aberdour, each 3–4 km away .
There are two primary schools in the village; it is also in the catchment area of Inverkeithing High School and Dollar Academy , two renowned secondary schools. As a commuter city in the catchment area of a metropolis, Dalgety Bay hardly has any noteworthy economic operations or infrastructure facilities that go beyond the everyday supply of the population. Despite its coastal location, the town is not very well developed for tourism, even if the Dalgety Bay Sailing Club was founded in 1971 as a result of a strong influx of people into the young city that year .
Dalgety Bay has achieved unpleasant, national fame since the 1990s for radioactive finds on the coastline, which are believed to have come from an undermined landfill and go back to illuminated radium displays used by the British Air Force during World War II. In 2013, the authorities determined that the Ministry of Defense was responsible for the contamination.
Personalities
- Gordon Durie (* 1965), former Scottish football player, has been a resident real estate agent since 2004
- Stephen Hendry (* 1969), former Scottish professional snooker , grew up partly in Dalgety Bay
- Steven Pressley (* 1973), former Scottish football player, grew up partly in Dalgety Bay
Web links
- The community website Dalgety Bay and Hillend (English)
- Dalgety Bay Gazetteer for Scotland (English)
- St Bridget's Church on Undiscovered Scotland , with photos
- St Bridget's Church on Scottland Fever.de (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ citypopulation.de (March 27, 2011): Dalgety Bay (Fife) , accessed on January 26, 2014
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ A b c Gazetteer for Scotland: Dalgety Bay , accessed January 28, 2014.
- ↑ Undiscovered Scotland: St Bridget's Church , accessed January 28, 2014.
- ↑ scottishchurches.org.uk: Donibristle Chapel , accessed February 7, 2014
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Dalgety Bay Sailing Club: Our History , accessed February 7, 2014.
- ↑ BBC News (January 16, 2014): Dalgety Bay radiation: MoD's proposals revealed , accessed February 8, 2014.
- ↑ transfermarkt.com: Gordon Durie , accessed February 6, 2014.
- ^ The Independent (February 9, 1997): WHERE I GREW UP: Stephen Hendry , accessed February 6, 2014.
- ^ The Scotsman (April 27, 2011): Steven Pressley (...) , accessed February 6, 2014.