Tour Scotland Winter 4K travel video of the viaduct on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Lower Largo on the coast of the East Neuk of Fife. Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, situated on Largo Bay on the north side of the Firth of Forth coast. Largo viaduct which you can see at the end of the video was built in 1857 with four masonry arches on the North British Railway line to St Andrews, the line closed in 1964. The viaduct makes a strong impression in the small village. An ancient fishing village, Lower Largo has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born in 1676, the son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo. Selkirk was an unruly youth, and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such expedition was on Cinque Ports, commanded by William Dampier. The ship called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands, and Selkirk judged correctly that the craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there. When he was eventually rescued by follow on English privateer Woodes Rogers, Selkirk had become adept at hunting and making use of the resources that he found on the island. His story of survival was widely publicised after their return to England, becoming a source of inspiration. The Fife Coastal Walking Path is a Scottish long distance walking footpath that runs from Kincardine to Newburgh. It runs for 117 miles along the coastline of Fife and passes through many seaside towns and villages including Lower Largo. The path would take around one week to walk completely from end to end. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March.
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