Colinsburgh, a village of Kilconquhar parish, in the East Neuk of Fife. It stands within 2 miles of, and 120 feet above, the Firth of Forth, 1¾ mile N by W of Kilconquhar station, this being 12½ miles E of Thornton Junetion, and 32½ NE of Edinburgh. Founded by and named after Colin, third Earl of Balcarres, about 1718, it is a burgh of barony; and has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the Commercial Bank, gasworks (1841), an hotel, a public school, a U.P. church (1800; 300 sittings), agricultural and horticultural societies, a Thursday market, and fairs on the second Thursday of June and October. Pop. (1841) 482, (1861), 438, (1871) 351, (1881) 382.Ord. Sur., sh. 41,1857.
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