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Dunfermline: Dunfermline Abbey
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Dunfermline is Fife's largest town if Rosyth is included (2001 population, 51,657). Chosen as the site of a Benedictine Abbey, the city was for three centuries the seat of the Scottish kings. It is well known as the burial place of King Robert the Bruce, and as the birthplace of Charles I (the last monarch born in Scotland), but its greatest son was undoubtedly Andrew Carnegie who became the USA's greatest steel manufacturer and the world's most renowned philanthropist. To this day, Andrew Carnegie's generosity to his home town is very apparent. Once renowned for its linen, Dunfermline is now a centre for electronics, distribution and financial services. A large scale easterly expansion of the town, involving a considerable range of private house builders, is currently in progress.
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Dunfermline (in Gaelic, Dùn Phàrlain) is a town in Fife, Scotland. It sits on high ground 3 miles from the shore of the Firth of Forth, northwest of Edinburgh. The town is a historic capital of Scotland. King Robert the Bruce is buried within Dunfermline Abbey, which is situated in the town. The town is intersected from north to south by the picturesque Pittencrieff Park, from which the town derives its name and at the bottom of which flows Lyne Burn. Dunfermline has a population of 39,229 [1].
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Dunfermline Abbey’s Carillon has twenty five bells which are housed in the North West of the Old Nave. It operated by playing a small piano-type keyboard situated near the organ console in the Church. The Carillion is played prior to both services on Sunday mornings and occasionally for weddings and other suitable occasions.
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Dunfermline Abbey can trace its roots back to 1070. That was when King Malcolm III married Queen Margaret in a ceremony in a church at Dunfermline. She liked the place so much she decided to set up a religious community here, bringing in Benedictine monks from Canterbury to form its core.
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The history of Dunfermline goes back to a remote period, for the Culdees had an establishment here. The name comes from the Gaelic "Dùn Fearam Linn" which translates as "the fort in the bend of the stream". There is no documentary evidence for the name being derived from 'Parlan' or anything of the sort, other than the modern form of the name in Scottish Gaelic. The monks of the abbey called the Tower Burn, 'Aqua de Ferme' and the 'Ferm' element in the name dates back to documents of the eleventh century.
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Dunfermline Abbey and Palace - Dunfermline's most celebrated ancient building is the Abbey, founded by Queen Margaret. The most significant survival is the Norman nave, dating from 1128, (see view of the west front on right). The 19th century parish church, which replaced the eastern end of the great monastic church, overlies Robert the Bruce's burial site. To the south are the remains of the Benedictine abbey's monastic buildings... open to the public, including the Palace created from the Abbot's Guest House by King James IV in 1540.
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