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Attractions near Ballingry
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Scottish Vintage Bus Museum
(5 Miles)*
The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum is now the acknowledged focal point of historic bus restoration and operation in Scotland. |
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Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery
(7 Miles)*
Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery, set in the town's lovely War Memorial Gardens, houses a collection of fine and decorative arts of local and national importance. |
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Abbot House
(7 Miles)*
The volunteer-run Abbot House Heritage Centre - dubbed 'The People's Tardis' - propels the traveller through time from the days of the Picts...a time warp peopled by a veritable Who's Who of characters from Dunfermline's past. |
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Dunfermline Abbey and Palace
(7 Miles)*
Dunfermline Abbey is the remains of a great Benedictine abbey founded by Queen Margaret in the 11th century. |
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Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
(7 Miles)*
In the cottage where the millionaire benefactor was born in 1835 is told the family's story prior to their emigration to the United States. |
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John McDouall Stuart Museum
(8 Miles)*
This house is the birthplace of John McDouall Stuart, the first European explorer to make a return journey across Australia in 1861-62. |
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Falkland Palace
(8 Miles)*
The Royal Palace of Falkland, set in the heart of a unique medieval village, was the country residence and hunting lodge of eight Stuart monarchs, including Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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Dalmeny House
(11 Miles)*
When Dalmeny House was completed in 1817, it marked a great departure in Scottish architecture; its Tudor Gothic style, with its highly-decorated chimneys and crenellations, looked back toward fanciful 16th-century English mansions, such as Hampton Court. |
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Queensferry Museum
(11 Miles)*
Situated in the historic former royal burgh of Queensferry, eight miles west of the city centre, the museum commands magnificent views of the two great bridges spanning the Forth. |
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Blackness Castle
(12 Miles)*
Blackness Castle was built in the 1440s, and was restored in the 1920s by the Office of Works. |
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Lauriston Castle
(12 Miles)*
A country mansion situated five miles west of the city centre, it stands in extensive grounds overlooking the Firth of Forth. |
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Newhaven Heritage Museum
(12 Miles)*
What was it like to live in a tightly-knit fishing community at Newhaven, and earn a living as a fishwife or a fisherman braving the sea? Find out at the lively and informative Newhaven Heritage Museum. |
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The Royal Yacht Britannia
(13 Miles)*
For over forty years The Royal Yacht Britannia served the Royal Family, travelling over one million miles to become the most famous ship in the world. |
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Royal Burgh of Culross
(13 Miles)*
This picturesque Royal Burgh on the northern shore of the Forth is a complete community, preserved as it was in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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House of the Binns
(13 Miles)*
An Edinburgh butter merchant, Thomas Dalyell, who had made his fortune at the court of King James VI and I in London, built the House of the Binns between 1612 and 1630. |
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