Spring Road Trip Drive Through Levenmouth Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, through Levenmouth on visit to Fife. Levenmouth on the North side of the Firth of Forth consists of three principle coastal towns; Buckhaven, Methil and Leven. The first mention of the town of Leven was made in two separate records in the middle of the 15th century, with urgent need for repair work at the monastery at levynnis mouth and George Durie, an estate owner, became the keeper of the harbour at levynnismouth. The area is named after the mouth of the River Leven. The word Leven comes from the Pictish word for flood and was originally given to Loch Leven, in Perthshire, the flood lake at the head of the river. Until 1821, the only bridge across the river was the Cameron Brig on the main Kirkcaldy to Cupar road. In that year a pedestrian suspension bridge was built at Leven, which was replaced by a three arched stone bridge in 1840. The toll to cross this bridge was a Scottish halfpenny, or bawbee. Even though the stone bridge was replaced by a single span bridge in 1957, it is still known locally as the Bawbee Brig.

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