Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Windygates Fife

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of old photographs of Windygates a small village and surrounding district in central Fife. It encompasses the villages, hamlets and estates of Wellsgreen Farm, Little Lun Farm, Woodbank Farm, The Maw, a former farming community, Cameron, Isabella, Smithyhill, Cameronbridge, Bridgend, Durie Estate, Duniface Farm, Haughmill, a former weaving community, Drumcaldie, The Meetings, confluence of Rivers Leven and Ore, Bankhead of Balcurvie, Fernhill, Fernbank, both former farms, Balcurvie Village, a former weaving community, Little Balcurvie, Hawthorn Bank, Kennowayburns and Windygates Village itself. Housing demands of the 20th century brought all of these, almost forgotten identities, together into a district now commonly known as Windygates. The Windygates Hotel at the village cross was originally a coaching inn, and there were toll gates at the cross until the late 19th century, when the village grew to accommodate the nearby Cameron Bridge whisky distillery. Scottish historian, Gordon Donaldson was born on 13 April 1913 in a tenement at 140 McDonald Road off Leith Walk in northern Edinburgh. He died in Windygates in Fife on 16 March 1993. He never married and left no family.

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