Steelend
village in Saline, Fife, Scotland, UK
Steelend is a former mining village in West Fife, Scotland, located on the B914 road approximately three-quarters of a mile east of the village of Saline and four miles north-west of Dunfermline. The village is home to a community centre and the Steelend Miners Welfare Club. A church was once located in the village but was demolished in the 1980s. In 1991 it had a population of 320.
The now-defunct Steelend Victoria F.C. were based at Woodside Park on the east side of the village until 2013 when the club folded due to financial issues. The name comes from a farm on Saline Hill north of Steelend.
A goods railway station once existed to the east of the village on the West of Fife Mineral Railway. The station served the several collieries that once operated nearby to Steelend, which included Sunnybraes Colliery, Saline Valley Colliery, Killernie Colliery and North Steelend Colliery.
The public transport serves the village in the form of buses which run to Dunfermline, Falkirk or Rosyth.
To the south of the village is Bandrum Hill, on top of which is a large standing stone, which are accessible from Steelend by a path.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Steelend” as village in Saline, Fife, Scotland, UK. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q105271747. Authority coordinates are 56.113, -3.549. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2013.
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