Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is 5 miles north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town grew up around the broad coalfields of the region and turned into a Police Burgh in 1890. As indicated by a 2008 gauge, the town has a populace of 14,081. The more extensive common area of Beith has a populace of 17,351 in 2011.

The soonest sign of human movement in the quick region of the current site of Cowdenbeath was given by the revelation recently Bronze Age vessels containing burned human stays, in 1928. An article by famous paleologist A.D. Lacaille F.S.A Scot points of interest the find of a late bronze-age burial ground close Tollie Hill. One of the urns found contained parts of prepared Arran pitchstone, showing some monetary action and trade.

There is no proof of a perpetual settlement building up itself around the current site of Cowdenbeath until the assignment of the first Beath Kirk as a ward church in 1429-30 to go about as a point of convergence to serve the encompassing zone. The most punctual composed record of Beath Beth was found in a contract of Inchcolm Abbey, dated 6 March 1178. This sanction makes reference to the Chapel of Beth.