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Buckhaven is a town on the east shoreline of Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth between East Wemyss and Methil. Buckhaven is on the Fife Coastal Path, and close to Wemyss Caves and Largo Bay. The name Buckhaven is most likely from the Scots expressions buck or bukk "to spout out" and sanctuary or "harbour". When a flourishing weaving town and angling port, in 1831 it was accounted for as having the second-biggest angling armada in Scotland with an aggregate of 198 vessels.
Angling declined amid the 19th century, however in the 1860s Buckhaven formed more into a mining town. In spite of the fact that coal squander darkened its shorelines and silted up its now non-existent harbor, it later turned into a Fife drift occasion resort and entertainment region for local people. These days, it is classed as one of Fife's 'Recovery need recovery both socially and economically. As per online sources and authors, the angling network of Buckhaven is said to have been generally the relatives of Norsemen who settled in the locale in the ninth century.
Centuries later, Buckhaven's fisherfolk purchased an Episcopal Church in St Andrews in 1869 and transported it stone by stone to Buckhaven, utilizing angling water crafts. The congregation was reestablished in the 1980s and changed over into a theater. Numerous prior years, St Andrews had been joined with the other nearby Church of Scotland holy places into one area.
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