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Boarhills

Boarhills in August 2008

Boarhills is a hamlet close to Kingsbarns in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. It is located off the A917 road, 4+12 miles (7 km) from St Andrews and 5+12 miles (9 km) from Crail, close to the mouth of Kenly Water with the North Sea.

History

Boarhills Church, built in 1866–67, stands apart from the village, with a large bellcote at its western end. Boarhills had a primary school, built in 1815 and which closed in the 1990s.[1]

Boarhills had a railway station on the North British Railway line from Thornton Junction to St Andrews via Crail.[2] The station closed to passengers on 22 September 1930 and to goods on 5 October 1964. The line was closed completely on 6 September 1965. This station was sited to the south of the A917.[3]

Buddo Rock is a sandstone sea stack on a raised beach close to Boarhills, 800 metres (2,600 ft) from Buddo Ness, accessible by the Fife Coastal Path. Nearby is a former lifeboat station, built between 1860 and 1890.

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ "Boarhills". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Anstruther and St Andrews Railway". RailScot. 23 February 2006. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  3. ^ "NO5613 : Site of Boarhills Station". Geograph Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  4. ^ Independent (newspaper) obituary: 29 July 1993