Auchtermuchty

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Auchtermuchty

TitleAuchtermuchty

CountyFife

CoordinatesLat : 56.2833333 Lon : -3.2166667

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Description Incorrect Description? Tell Us!Auchtermuchty (Gaelic: Uachdar Mucadaidh - English interpretation: "Field of Boars") is a town in Fife, Scotland, situated beside Pitlour Hill nine miles north of Glenrothes. Until 1975 it was a royal burgh, established under charter of King James V in 1517. There is evidence of human habitation in the area dating back over 2,000 years, and the Romans are known to have established a camp in the southeast corner of the town. In the past, the linen industry was a major source of work in the town, but in the early 18th century the firm of John White was established, bringing the town its first foundry (there were two eventually). There was even a distillery in operation from 1829 to 1929, when Prohibition in the U.S.A. led to its closure. The town nowadays is a quiet but thriving community, situated in the Scottish countryside, where there are several local recreational footpaths. There is a modest range of local industry, but most people of working age travel outwith the town for employment. The population of Auchtermuchty at the 2001 Census was 2,010.

There is a festival held each year in August.

The town was used as the location for Tannochbrae in the 1990s TV series Dr Finlay's Casebook.

The town's church is mentioned in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

The town gets a mention in The Family Ness theme song, You'll Never Find A Nessie In The Zoo, in the refrain "You can go to Auchtermuchty and to Drumnadrochit too, but you'll never find a Nessie in the zoo". It also appears in Rich Hall's joke "When I told the folks back home I was coming to Auchtermuchty, they said 'wear the fox hat'".

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Auchtermuchty"

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