Old Travel Blog Photograph Lower Main Street Strathkinness Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages on Lower Main Street in Strathkinness located three miles West of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. In 1144 Bishop Robert gave "Lands of Strathkinness" to the St. Andrews Priory. In Reformation times Strathkinness was part of St. Andrews Parish so it lay within the care of St Andrews Parish Church, now called Holy Trinity and the ministers sent preachers to conduct services. Strathkinness school was one of several established in St Andrews parish in 1647. In 1777 a plot of 4 acres was set apart as an endowment for the school and later there was a Free Church school with, in 1864, 170 children while there were 60 children at the parish school. Strathkinness, like other places, experienced dissent and breakaway congregations. The Relief church came in 1799 and faded 20 years later, as did the Methodists who bought their little church. A Secession church also existed for a few years. It eventually reunited with the Church of Scotland and with it brought their minister the Reverend Ralph Robb.



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