Summer Road Trip Drive On History Visit To Kennoway Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, from Leven on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Kennoway, Fife. The village is near the larger population centres in the area of Leven and Methil. It is about three miles inland from the Firth of Forth, north of Leven. This position gave it importance in the old days while travelling by coach, for the stage road ran through Kennoway from the ferry at Pettycur, through Ceres, and on to St. Andrews. The street known as The Causeway is part of the Fife Pilgrim Way due ties with St Kenneth. George Lillie Craik was born in 1798 in Kennoway. He was a Scottish writer and literary critic. He was the eldest of three illustrious brothers to the local schoolmaster, his younger brothers including Henry Craik and James Craik. George was educated at the University of St. Andrews, and went to London in 1824, where he wrote largely for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. In 1849 George was appointed Professor of English Literature and History at Belfast. Among his books are The New Zealanders, The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties, History of British Commerce, and History of English Literature and the English Language . He was also joint author of The Pictorial History of England, and wrote books on Edmund Spenser and Francis Bacon. His second daughter was the novelist Georgiana M. Craik. George died in 1866. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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