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| | Historical perspective for Markinch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Markinch has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, agencies of 10 insurance companies, a town-hall (1857), a subscription library, 2 hotels, a gas company, a water company, bowling and curling clubs, and a cottage gardeners' society. |
 | | Markinch parish is bounded NW by Falkland, N by kettle, E by Kennoway and Scoonie, SE by Wemyss, SW by Dysart, and W by Kinglassie and Leslie. |
 | | The men of Markinch, it has been shown from the Kirk Session Records, were warmly attached to the Covenanting cause, in defence of which they spent' lives, land, and gear.' Seven public schools, with total accommodation for 1061 children, had (1883) an average attendance of 856, and grants amounting to £736, 3s. |
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