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The Beach at Seafield Tower

nobody@flickr.com (Dysartian) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:40:50 -0700

Dysartian posted a photo:

Rocky beach view at Invertiel, Kirkcaldy, with the ruins of Seafield Tower on the right and the Lothian shore, with Arthurs Seat and Edinburgh in the distance! You can just see people on the popular Fife Coastal Path walk, just by the tower. Beyond the tower, seals bask on the rocks and all manner of seabirds can be seen.

The Old and the New at Seafield

nobody@flickr.com (Dysartian) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:37:25 -0700

Dysartian posted a photo:

Behind the ruins of Seafield Tower you can see poking out, the roofs of some of the expensive modern housing which now occupies the surface area of the defunct Seafield Colliery. The deep coal-pit was opened in 1960 and despite it being said that it had a life of 150 years, with reserves of 60 million tons (much of the coal being deep under the bed of the Firth of Forth) the pit closed in 1988, after only 28 years of production and at least one disaster, where sadly, five miners died..

Seafield Tower was built of local red sandstone in the early 16th century by the Moultry family and is located on the coast between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy. Its site gives good views along the coast in either direction, with particularly good line of sight to Ravenscraig Castle, so it could have acted in the capacity of a warning of invasion by English, or pirates (to a Scot, the terms English and pirates may be one and the same thing I guess LOL)! The tower's last recorded historic owner was Methven of Raith who abandoned it in 1733.

Along with the coastal land it sits on, it was bought by local businessmen, about three years ago, reportedly as a potential restaurant development? Quite apart from rebuilding costs and problems in gaining planning permissions, the expense involved in bringing in water, power and road access to this location would be prohibitive. Scratch one pipe dream!

The View from Seafield

nobody@flickr.com (Dysartian) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:52:46 -0700

Dysartian posted a photo:

The rocks at Seafield Tower are a nice place to climb around on, or provide a place where you can sit and watch the seals on the offshore rocks, or swimming in the waters. Dolphins and harbour porpoises may also visit if you are lucky. In the distance you can see Inchkeith Island and also Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags, Carboniferous geological features, which tower over over the city of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.