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Dunfermline is close to the site of the naval base of Rosyth. And major industries in Dunfermline include engineering, electronics, and textiles.
The history of Dunfermline goes back to a remote period, for the early Celtic monks known as Culdees had an establishment here; but its fame and prosperity date from the marriage of Malcolm Canmore and his queen Margaret, which took place in the town in 1070. The king then lived in a tower on a mound surrounded on three sides by the glen. A fragment of this castle still exists in Pittencrieff Park, a little west of the later palace.
Under the influence of Queen Margaret in 1075 the foundations were laid of the Benedictine priory, which was raised to the rank of an abbeyThis article is about an abbey as a religious building. See also Abbey (bank), Abbey Theatre and Abbey, Saskatchewan An abbey (from the Latin abbatia which is derived from the Syriac abba "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent under the government by David IDavid I known as "the Saint", ( 1084 May 24, 1153), king of Scotland, the youngest son of Malcolm Canmore and of Saint Margaret (sister of Edgar AEtheling), was born in 1084. He married in 1113 Matilda, daughter and heiress of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbri (see Dunfermline AbbeyDunfermline Abbey is the remains of a great Benedictine abbey founded in 1070 by Queen Margaret, wife of Malcolm Canmore and granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King of England. The foundations of her church are under the present superb nave, built in the 1). Robert the BruceRobert I, King of Scots usually known as Robert the Bruce ( July 11, 1274 June 7, 1329, reigned 1306 1329), was, according to a modern biographer (Geoffrey Barrow), a great hero who lived in a minor country. In every aspect of his career prior to becoming gave the town its charter in 1322Events September 27/ September 28 Battle of Ampfing, often called the last battle of knights, in which Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria Births Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders Deaths January 3 P, though in his Fife: Pictorial and Historical (ii. 223), A. H. Millar contends that till the confirming charter of James VIJames VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) ( 19 June 1566 27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 ( 1588Events May 12 Day of the Barricades in Paris. Duke Henry of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee. May 28 The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will take until) all burghal privileges were granted by the abbots.
In the 18th century Dunfermline impressed Daniel DefoeDaniel Defoe ( 1660 April 21, 1731) was an English writer and journalist, who first gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe''. Biography Born Daniel Foe the son of James Foe, a butcher in the Stoke Newington neighbourhood of London, England, he would la as showing the "full perfection of decay", but it regained prosperity. A staple industry was the manufacture of table linen. The weaving of damask was introduced in 1718 by James Blake, who had learned the secret of the process in the workshops at Drumsheugh near Edinburgh, to which he gained admittance by feigning idiocy; and after that date the linen trade advanced by leaps and bounds, much of the success being due to the beautiful designs produced by the manufacturers.
Among other industries that have largely contributed to the welfare of the town are dyeing and bleaching, brass and iron founding, tanning, machine-making, brewing and distilling, milling, rope-making and the making of soap and candles.
The town is well supplied with public buildings. Besides the New Abbey church, the United Free church in Queen Anne Street founded by Ralph Erskine, and the Gillespie church, named after Thomas Gillespie ( 1708— 1774), another leader of the Secession movement, possess some historical importance. Erskine is commemorated by a statue in front of his church and a sarcophagus over his grave in the abbey churchyard; Gillespie by a marble tablet on the wall above his resting-place within the abbey.
The Corporation buildings, a blend of the Scots Baronial and French Gothic styles, contain busts of several Scottish sovereigns a statue of Robert Burns, and Sir Noel Paton’s painting of the "Spirit of Religion." Other structures are the County buildings, the Public, St Margaret’s, Music and Carnegie halls, the last in the Tudor style, Carnegie public baths, high school (founded in 1560), school of science and art, and two hospitals.
Several distinguished names have connections with Dunfermline. Robert Henryson ( 1430 - 1506), the poet, was long one of its schoolmasters. John Row ( 1568 - 1646), the Church historian, held the living of Carnock, 5 km (3 miles) to the east., and David Ferguson (d. 1598) who made the first collection of Scottish proverbs (not published till 1641), was parish minister; Robert Gilfillan ( 1798— 1850), the poet, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton ( 1821- 1901), painter and poet—whose father was a designer of patterns for the damask trade - were all born here.
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