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WEMYSS , a See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of Fifeshire, See also:

Scotland, embracing the villages of See also:

East and See also:

West Wemyss and the See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police See also:

burgh of Buckhaven, a fishing See also:

PORT

port lying on the See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

SHORE

shore of the See also:

Firth of Forth, 21 m. S.W. of See also:

Leven, on the See also:

North See also:

BRITISH

British Railway See also:

COMPANY

Company's See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch See also:

LINE

line from See also:

Thornton Junction to Methil. See also:

COAL

Coal See also:

MINING

mining is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of the See also:

DISTRICT

district, the coal being exported from the port of Methil, of which the See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour was constructed by See also:

David, 2nd See also:

EARL

earl of Wemyss (d. 1679), the See also:

TOWN

town being made a burgh of See also:

BARONY

barony in 1662. See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

Population of Buckhaven, including Methil and Innerleven (1901), 8828; of East Wemyss, 2522; of West Wemyss, 1253; of Wemyss parish, 15,031. The district is of much archaeological and historic See also:

INTEREST

interest. On the shore to the north-east are two square towers which are supposed to have formed See also:

PART

part of See also:

MACDUFF

Macduff's See also:

castle; and near them are the remarkable caves (weems, from the Gaelic, uamha) from which the district derives its name. Several of them contain archaic sculptures, held by some to be the See also:

WORK

work of the See also:

Christian missionaries who found shelter here; by others ascribed to the same prehistoric agency as the inscribed stones of northern Scotland. Near East Wemyss is Wemyss Castle, the See also:

ancient seat of the See also:

FAMILY

family of the same name which has played a conspicuous part in Scottish See also:

HISTORY

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