parish of Auchterderran

E231998

The parish of Auchterderran is a historic ecclesiastical and civil parish in Fife, Scotland, encompassing the town of Cardenden and surrounding settlements.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
parish of Auchterderran canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf civil parish
ecclesiastical parish
historic parish
adjacentToParish parish of Abbotshall
parish of Auchtertool
parish of Ballingry
parish of Beath
linked to: Beath parish

parish of Kinglassie
parish of Kirkcaldy and Dysart
category Church of Scotland parishes
linked to: Church of Scotland

Civil parishes of Scotland
Parishes in Fife
civilParishNumber 420 (Fife civil parish code, approximate/indicative)
containsSettlement Auchterderran village
Bowhill
Cardenbank (historically)
Cardenden
Dundonald (historically)
linked to: Dundonald

Jamphlars (historically)
Lochgelly (part historically)
linked to: Lochgelly

Woodend (historically)
country Scotland
ecclesiasticalJurisdiction Presbytery of Kirkcaldy (Church of Scotland)
governedAs civil parish (pre-1975 local government)
hasAlternativeName Auchterderran (civil parish)
linked to: Auchterderran

Auchterderran Parish
linked to: Auchterderran
hasCemetery Auchterderran churchyard
hasHistoricalIndustry coal mining
railway-related employment
hasNotableSettlementType mining village (Cardenden)
hasParishChurch Auchterderran Parish Church
hasPlaceOfWorship Auchterderran Parish Church, Kirk of Scotland
hasPrimaryTown Cardenden
hasTransportLink Cardenden railway station
historicCounty Fife
languageHistoricallySpoken Scots
Scottish Gaelic (to a lesser extent)
locatedIn Fife
Kingdom of Fife council area
locatedOn eastern edge of the Fife coalfield
modernLocalAuthority Fife Council
OSGridReferenceApprox NT2195 (approximate parish centre)
partOf Church of Scotland parish system
linked to: Church of Scotland
region Lowlands
religiousDenomination Church of Scotland
timePeriod medieval origin (parish structure)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cardenden partOf parish of Auchterderran