Dunfermline
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Dunfermline is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, 3 miles (5 km) from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. Dunfermline was the de facto capital of the Kingdom of Scotland between the 11th and 15th centuries.
Image: Dunfermline Panorama 5
Image: Pilmuir Works Chimney
Image: Dunfermline Abbey geograph.org.uk 5426621
Image: Dunfermline Town Hall Tower geograph.org.uk 4986693
Royal burgh
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A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal burghs.
Falkland in Fife, created a royal burgh in 1458
Burghs by 1153