Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Kirkcaldy, East on the A955 road, through Dysart, Coaltown of Wemyss, East wemyss, Buckhaven and Methil on ancestry visit to Leven on the North side of the Firth of Forth in Fife The Levenmouth area 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.
The A955 forms part of the Fife coast road. It starts on a junction with the A921 on the seafront at Kirkcaldy. The A921 used to be the A92 before a Kirkcaldy bypass was built. The A955 heads north east to Leven and is never more than a mile from the Firth of Forth. Heading out of Kirkcaldy, we pass junctions for the B928 and B929 and pass through the villages of Coaltown of Wemyss and East Wemyss. Into the town of Buckhaven, we have a junction with the B930 followed by the B931. We now take a more inland route around Methil and through Innterleven. Halfway along this route we have a junction with the B932, which loops through Methil, crossing the B931 and meeting us again at a roundabout just before the bridge over the River Leven, where the B931 is also met again. Across the bridge, the B933 comes in from the north. The original route of the A955 through Leven is now pedestrianised, so the road now loops around along the seafront, before heading back inland.
Charles Augustus Carlow was born on 30 November 1878 at 2 Links Place in Leven, Fife, to Mary Weatherstone, née Lindsay; born 1851, died 1929, daughter of William Lindsay, a shipowner, and Charles Carlow, born 1849, died 1923 a mining engineer. He studied mining technology at Heriot Watt College and the University of Edinburgh. He became a leading Scottish mining engineer and owner and managing director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd., that was based in Leven, Fife. In 1927 he gave Blair House and 27 acres of ground near Culross in Fife to serve as a convalescent home for elderly and injured miners. The home is named for him as Charles Carlow Miners Convalescent Home. In 1952 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews. He died in St Andrews in Fife on 13 August 1954.
David Gibb was born was born in Methil near Leven, Fife on 31 October 1883, the eldest son of Robert Gibb, a salt manufacturer, and his wife Joanna. He attended Leven Public School then George Watsons College in Edinburgh. He studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Edinburgh graduating in 1906. While a student he lodged with a Mr Flockhart at 3 West Preston Street, Edinburgh. In 1909 he began lecturing in mathematics at the University. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to mathematics and astronomy. During the First World War he worked on the Ballistic Department Ordnance Committee at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, England, remotely calculating complex gun angles to fire on hidden or obscured targets, such as at the Gallipoli peninsula. He returned to the University of Edinburgh after the war. From 1920 he was President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. In 1934 he was promoted to Reader in Mathematics and remained in this role until his death in 1946. He died in Edinburgh on 28 March 1946.
In Gaelic, spelled Liobhann, the name Leven means Place Of The Flood. The surname Leven was first found in Shropshire, England. The Leven surname comes from a Middle English given name Lefwine, which in turn comes from the Old English elements " leof, " which meant " dear " or " beloved," and " wine," which meant " friend. " The various spellings include Lewin, Lewins, Lewens, Lewinson and others.
James Leven travelled from Leith, Edinburgh, aboard the ship Melbourne arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 18th March 1861; George Leven, aged 20 was a Seaman aboard the ship Gilmour taking passenger to Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec, Canada, but died at Grosse Isle on 15th June 1847 in the typhus epidemic
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