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September 14, 2022

Corner to Corner, Day 45: St Andrews to Edinburgh

https://www.cycling4charity.org.uk

Saw something on the top of the hill about a mile north east of our route...

1897 Hill of Tarvit Monument. Two theories about its purpose: celebrating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee or the 1559 Treaty of Garlie Bank https://canmore.org.uk/site/320626/hill-of-tarvit-monument & https://canmore.org.uk/site/31501/tarvit-mill

Our environment - a mile out and south west of Ceres

W hen I caught Lorraine up, she was talking with a lady driving a horse and cart.

The Rings near Cupar is available for rent.
https://therings.co.uk/

This was a downward hill...

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Road surface - on a road which I think is no longer a public thoroughfare

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In need of this morning's shot, we stopped at 3Beans Coffee cafe, where a group of senior men were meeting. Lorraine has an enticing toasted cheese sandwich, and I followed suit after my cake and coffee. A husband and wife donated having seen the jersey back and we got talking. Thank you. Markinch parish church - 12th century tower; the rest mainly 18th century. Church's own website includes internal photos: http://www.markinchchurch.org.uk/?page_id=158 & Canmore entry: https://canmore.org.uk/site/29951/markinch-st-drostans-parish-church

Markinch Town Hall https://www.fife.gov.uk/facilities/hall/markinch-town-hall

Robert Tullis' company bought one paper mill in 1836. The Tullis Russell Group had two paper mills in Markinch; the last of which closed in 2015. https://canmore.org.uk/site/70462/glenrothes-markinch-tullis-russell-co-papermill

Saw this church off route: St Margaret's CofS church, Glenrothes. In 1953, the first church in the first new town in Scotland. http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/7780/name/St.+Margaret%27s+Parish+Church%2C+Glenrothes+Markinch+Fife & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenrothes

Photograph to record step-free bicycle wheel channel on the A92 footbridge between Glenrothes/Thornton and Kirkcaldy - for updating Open Street Map.

Nairn's Linoleum Works' sole remaining and listed building, Den Road, Kirkcaldy, seen from Nairn Street. The second Canmore entry includes internal and external photographs and narrates the history of Lino and Kirkcaldy becoming its world leader. https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1113480 & https://canmore.org.uk/site/94474/kirkcaldy-den-road-nairns-linoleum-works

1901 St Marie's Catholic Church, Kirkcaldy, diagonally opposite The Wild Side, as Lorraine noted. http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/6672/name/Our+Lady+of+Perpetual+Succour+St.+Maries+Church+Kirkcaldy+and+Dysart+Fife

1938 Kirkcaldy Fire Station https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200381073-fire-station-dunnikier-road-kirkcaldy-kirkcaldy#.Y4Y1UC-l2Rt & https://canmore.org.uk/site/83541/kirkcaldy-dunnikier-road-fire-station

We assumed this sign related to an earlier sea wall constructed 1922-23 to relive unemployment. This sea wall looks relatively new.

The Kirkcaldy Mile is exactly that!

Komoot route meant leaving the traffic-free cycle route early. We stayed on to see what was possible. Will re-route, staying on the esplanade till the end, crossing the A921 onto a cycle track which zig-zag leads to Invertiel Terrace and Streetview shows a tarmac path which leads back to the main road at a less busy spot than the dual carriageway and busy crossroads we traversed.

Looking back to Kirkcaldy from Jawbanes Road after an initial climb. More was to come!

Lorraine was ahead of me, as always with hills. Down then left then right, climbing again.

Pitteadie Castle, visible from Standing Staines Road. I met a young woman who often walked up from Kirkcaldy where she said there were a million people in your hair and here she could be with herself and reflect. Her dad cycles. https://youtu.be/eQ299GUE7bY https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/historic-castle-ruins-in-need-of-complete-renovation-222989