Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of old photographs of Markinch, Scottish Gaelic Marc Innis, a town and a parish in the heart of Fife, Scotland. During the industrial revolution in the middle of the 19th century, Markinch village started to adapt to spinning and weaving production. The use of water wheels of the corn and meal mills encouraged new industries to begin along the River Leven on land between Auchmuty and Milton of Balgonie in the form of paper mills, bleach mills and ironworks. The parish church, prominently situated on a mound at the highest point of the town, and dedicated to the Pictish St. Drostan, is recorded in documents from the 11th century on, though it may well be of earlier origin. Though the body of the church is a plain Georgian " preaching box " of 1786, the adjoining tower is medieval, and may date to the late 11th early 12th centuries. Of exceptionally fine masonry, it is very similar to the tower of St. Rule's Church in St Andrews.

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