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Ballingry
FifeA small town to the south of Benarty Hill in W Fife, the old Kirkton of Ballingry developed as a mining settlement after 1870. Its ancient church, rebuilt in 1831, features in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Abbot. A gas plant and former open cast mine lie to the east at Westfield.
There is a 9-hole golf course.
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