Tour Scotland Spring travel video of an April road trip drive, with Scottish music, on visit to Oakley and Comrie in Fife. Oakley is a village located at the mutual border of Carnock and Culross parishes, 5.4 miles West of Dunfermline on the A907 road. Oakley village was built in connection with the Forth or Oakley Ironworks in 1846, now all gone along with the colliery industry. Subsequent to their use in the ironworks, the buildings were used as a sawmill producing rough timber for railway sleepers, fence posts and the like. Most of the houses in Oakley were built in the 1950s for incoming mineworkers from the west coast; these have since been purchased by the occupants.
Comrie lies immediately to the west of Oakley on the A907 road between Dunfermline and Alloa. There had been coal and ironstone mining in the vicinity since middle of the 19th Century but the community developed in the 1930s and 1940s along with the sinking of the Comrie coal mine to the northwest by the Fife Coal Co. The mine later became associated with the Longannet Complex, but closed in the mid-1980s.
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