Historic houses · Scottish Highlands
Colinsburgh Town Hall
Colinsburgh Town Hall in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
Richard Sutcliffe — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Colinsburgh Town Hall is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Colinsburgh Town Hall is a municipal building in Main Street, Colinsburgh, Fife, Scotland. The building is used as a community events venue.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
For most of the 19th century, community events in Colinsburgh were held in the local school, but, in the early 1880s, the artist, Lady Caroline Coutts Lindsay, led an initiative to establish a dedicated town hall. The initiative gathered pace when Captain James Scott-Davidson of Cairnie took charge of fundraising and secured a significant contribution from Eudoxie, Countess of Lindsay, who, with her husband, John Trotter Bethune, 10th Earl of Lindsay, lived at Kilconquhar House. The site they chose for the new town hall in Main Street was occupied by the Countess of Lindsay's sewing school. Construction on the new building started in 1894. It was designed by Andrew Dewar and Alexander…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 56.2211, -2.8436
- District
- Fife
- Postcode
- KY9 1LP
- Parliamentary constituency
- North East Fife
- Established
- 1895
Sources
- wikidata: Q113483873 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Colinsburgh Town Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Colinsburgh Town Hall?
- Colinsburgh Town Hall is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode KY9 1LP).
- When was Colinsburgh Town Hall built?
- Built or established in 1895.
- How do I get to Colinsburgh Town Hall?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode KY9 1LP. It sits within the North East Fife parliamentary constituency.