Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Ninians, opencast coal mine, Beath
Grid reference
NT 125 924 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
312500 692400
Latitude
56.11638206606084
Longitude
-3.4073888287056273
County
Fife
Nearby places
St Margaret's Well, Beath parish (0.51 miles)
Beath, parish (1.68 miles)
Lady Dean, Dunfermline (2.13 miles)
Lumphinnan, eccles. Ballingry (2.81 miles)
St Margaret's Well, well Dunfermline (3.05 miles)
Object Classification
Other
Relief
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
This is where St Margaret's Well, Beath, used to be, and may be the reason for its destruction.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Ninians
Head name
St Ninians
Place
St Ninians, opencast coal mine, Beath
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Saints in this place-name
Ninian (ns) (certain)
Ninian of Whithorn (certain)
Place-name data
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Map Layers
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Satellite map:
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Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
