Cowdenbeath, a village in the S of Beath parish, Fife, 2 miles WS W of Lochgelly, and 3 furlongs N by W of Cowdenbeath station on the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee section of the North British, this being 5¼ miles ENE of Dunfermline. It has a post office under Lochgelly,. with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a Free church, and a public school; and in the neighbourhood are the extensive collieries of the Cowdenbeath Coal Co. Pop. (1861) 1148, (1871) 1457, (1881) 2712.
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