Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, West on A917 road, from Lundin Links, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the town of Leven, Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Lìobhann, on the East coast of Fife. The origin of the name Leven comes from the Pictish word for flood. In 1854 the Leven Railway opened, linking the town with Thornton Junction on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen main line. This helped it to become a tourist resort popular with visitors from the west of Scotland, and particularly Glasgow. Leven is located on the coast of the Firth of Forth at the mouth of the River Leven, eight miles north east of Kirkcaldy and six miles east of Glenrothes. Golf is also a major draw with two courses at Scoonie and Leven Links. The ecclesiastical and civil parish of Scoonie included the town of Leven. I was born in Randolph Street, in nearby village of Buckhaven. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip.
Charles Augustus Carlow was born at 2 Links Place in Leven, Fife on 30 November 1878 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. Charles studied mining technology at Heriot-Watt College and the University of Edinburgh. 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. 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.
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