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Thornton
FifeA town in central Fife, situated between the Lochty Burn and the River Ore to the south of Glenrothes.
Formerly an important staging post on a coaching route, it developed during the 19th Century at a railway junction associated with the coalfields of Fife. Its station was closed in 1969 and its Rothes Pit abandoned in the early 1970s.
Thornton has an 18-hole golf course.
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