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Kennoway
Sign in to saveKennoway is a village in Fife, Scotland, near the larger population centres in the area of Leven and Methil. It had an estimated population of in . 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" was also added to part of the Fife Pilgrim Way in 2019 due ties with St Kenneth, the Causeway being part of one of the designated conservation areas by Fife Council
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Place details
- Locality
- Windygates
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4,600
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Kennoway
- UK place.population_ref
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- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Fife
- UK place.static_image_name
- Leven Road, Kennoway.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Leven Road, Kennoway
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 4610
- Elevation
- 66
- Image
- Leven Road, Kennoway.jpg
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Kennoway is a village in Fife, Scotland, near the larger population centres in the area of Leven and Methil. It had an estimated population of in . 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" was also added to part of the Fife Pilgrim Way in 2019 due ties with St Kenneth, the Causeway being part of one of the designated conservation areas by Fife Council
==Place-name history== Kennoway derives from Scottish Gaelic, though the exact meaning is obscure. The name was first recorded as Kennachin in 1160. The first element 'kenn' is from the Gaelic ceann meaning 'head', 'top' or 'end'. The second and final elements, 'ach' and 'in' appear to both be suffixes indicating location. Taken together, the name appears to mean 'head- or end-place, place at the head or end'.
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