Dreich Road Trip Drive On B981 Through Crossgates To Visit Cowdenbeath In Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland late Summer travel video of a dreich road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the B981 road, through Crossgates, and onwards, to visit Cowdenbeath in Fife. Dreich is a Scots words for dull and cloudy weather. Crossgates is a village located close to the junction of the M90 motorway and A92 road, about two miles east of Dunfermline and a similar distance south west of Cowdenbeath. The village name means crossroads. it is situated at the point where the main Dunfermline to Kirkcaldy road crosses the old Great North Road from Inverkeithing to Perth. The town of Cowdenbeath grew up around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a Police Burgh in 1890. It is alleged that the infamous graverobbers Burke and Hare sourced some of their cadavers from local cemetery, to supply to the Scottish surgeon Robert Knox for dissection. When the actual name of Cowdenbeath came into being is not known, but it is thought to have originated when turnpike roads were first made and that it marked the spot of an inn and later of a tollhouse erected in the 17th century. Cowdenbeath first came into prominence around 1820 as a stop on the north bound coaching route to Perth, Perthshire.

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