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Fordell Castle

N of Dalgety Bay, Fife.

Fordell Castle, a 16th-century castle, gardens, early-18th-century designed landscape and industrial complex.

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An early 19th century landscape design by Thomas White, Jnr. (1764-1836) incorporating a 16th century castle, gardens, early 18th century designed landscape and industrial complex. It is a multi-period landscape of some complexity and includes the archaeological remains of the Fordell waggonway, first established in 1756.

The recorded, complex, multi-period landscape history of Fordell gives it outstanding Historical value. It is a prominent example of one of the ornamental designed landscapes in Fife, associated with a coastal estate, where wealth was derived from coal mining.

The parkland landscape with contrived 'natural' planting and the walled Castle gardens, remodelled in the late 19th/early 20 centuries and noted as exemplars of their time, give this site high value as a Work of Art. [HES]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: There is no entrance to the Fordell Day Level at this location.

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