Kirkcaldy and Dysart is a civil parish on the south coast of Fife, Scotland, lying on the Firth of Forth, containing the towns of Kirkcaldy and Dysart and their hinterland. The civil parish was formed in December 1901 by an amalgamation of the parishes of Kirkcaldy, Dysart and Abbotshall, along with the portion of the parish of Kinghorn which lay within the burgh of Kirkcaldy.[1] However the parish of Abbotshall was originally part of the parish of Kirkcaldy and had only been disjoined from it in 1650.[2]

The civil parish of Kirkcaldy and Dysart is bounded on the south by the parish of Kinghorn and a small section of Auchtertool, on the west by Auchterderran,[2] on the north by Kinglassie, on the north-west by Markinch and on the east by Wemyss.[3] It contains the Community Council areas of Kirkcaldy West, Templehall, Kirkcaldy North (Dunnikier), Bennochy/Hayfield, East Kirkcaldy, Dysart and Thornton.[4]

The civil parish has a population of 49,918 (in 2011) [5] and its area is 9581 acres.[6]

References

  1. ^ Edinburgh Gazette, October 11, 1901, Order No. XLII
  2. ^ a b Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Abbotshall
  3. ^ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Dysart
  4. ^ Fife Community Council web site www.fifedirect.org.uk/CommunityCouncils retrieved May 2016
  5. ^ Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved March 2016. See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930
  6. ^ Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Kirkcaldy. Places are presented alphabetically
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