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Saline, Fife

Village and parish in Fife, Scotland

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country	Scotland
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official_name	Saline
population
population_ref	()
unitary_scotland	Fife
constituency_westminster	Dunfermline and West Fife
constituency_scottish_parliament	Dunfermline
os_grid_reference	NT022924

Saline is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland, situated 5 mi to the north-west of Dunfermline. It lies in an elevated position on the western slopes of the Cleish Hills.

At the 2001 census the population was 1188, a decline from the 1235 recorded in the 1991 census. The village has a primary school, a parish church and a golf course. The glen runs from the bottom of the main street through to neighbouring Steelend.

The civil parish has a population of 1,762 (in 2011) and an area of 8,757 acres.

The village is dominated to the east-north-east by Saline Hill, 359 meters OD, with a hill fort on the eastern summit. The smaller hill to the south of east at Bandrum has a standing stone on the peak.

History

A pre-Reformation church was under control of Dunkeld Cathedral.

Formerly a weaving centre, Saline was not much redeveloped during the 19th and 20th centuries as the expansion of industrial mining in west Fife largely passed it by. As a result, Saline contains a sizable number of listed buildings, mostly 18th century weavers' cottages.

The parish church was designed by William Stark in 1808 and remodelled in 1905 by Glasgow architect Peter MacGregor Chalmers. Following the Disruption of 1843 a Free Church was built on Bridge Street by Lewis Mercer.

Famous residents

Thomas Bonnar (1821–1862), an architect, was born here.

John Barrowman (-1860), inventor of the Barrowman plough lived here.

References

{{Scottish settlement population citation
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
Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Saline. Places are presented alphabetically
''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''
Buildings of Scotland: Fife by John Gifford
"Thomas Bonnar". [[Historic Environment Scotland]].
"One Plough, Three Generations".

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