Will you help us expand this site to document our history and our heritage? Email us at news@falklandsociety.org.uk if you'd like to get involved.
Welcome!
Welcome to Falkland Historic Buildings – the online encyclopaedia of Falkland and its tangible heritage -
archaeology, buildings, landscape and some of the people who have helped to make Falkland the special place that it is.
This site was created to preserve and display the outcome of The Falkland Listed Buildings Survey,
launched in August 2020 when volunteers from the Falkland Society delivered a leaflet around the Falkland Conservation area,
asking residents to tell us about their house,
giving details of its history, previous names, and any special features.
Starting on World Photography Day, 19 August 2020, volunteers have been taking photographs
(as seen from the street) of buildings throughout the town.
listed by HES for their special architectural or historic interest.
But it's not easy to find out about the listed buildings or even where they are.
The listing was mainly done in the early 1970s,
and many of the HES records refer to buildings by names that bear no relation to their current addresses;
one of the aims of this site is to locate our listed buildings and relate them to the current names and addresses.
This site is maintained by the Falkland Society.
Falkland in context
"Falkland", for most people probably means the built-up area of our historic town (or village) in the middle of
the "Kingdom" of Fife, south-east Scotland. But this wiki also covers:
- the old Parish of Falkland, dating back to the 12th century or before
- the much smaller Royal Burgh of Falkland, from 1458
- the Falkland Estate, which has grown and shrunk over the years
- the current Community Council area (formally the Royal Burgh of Falkland and Newton of Falkland Community Council).
Falkland is very rich in historic and interesting buildings, many of them
Listed Buildings;
the historic core of Falkland includes the Falkland Conservation Area,
and two areas have been specially designated by Historic Environment Scotland (HES):
the Falkland Palace gardens, and
the House of Falkland designed landscape.
See also the "About page".
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What's on this site?
This site aims to cover the whole of the historic Parish of Falkland including Freuchie and
Newton of Falkland as well as Falkland itself (with the historic Royal Burgh at its core),
plus a few sites of particular interest outwith the Parish).
We now include:
We aim ultimately to include:
- all buildings within the Conservation area and historic core of the Burgh
- all buildings of any significance in the rest of the Parish
- all buildings mentioned in some of our Falkland Society publications, including:
Exploring this site
This site is a Wiki - that is, it uses the same software, and much of the same approach, as Wikipedia, but it's entirely independent.
As with Wikipedia, there are several ways to find information on this site.
Anywhere you see a word or phrase in blue, you can click on it and be taken to the item in question
(words in red are links to an article that hasn't been written yet).
Click on any picture to see a larger version.
- Explore our records street by street.
- browse by category: to get an overview of the range of material that we cover.
- take pot luck: use the "Random page" link at the left.
- search for a particular building or person, using the search box at the top right of the page.
For further details, see Help:Using this site.
And why not check out our associated websites: The Falkland Society and Historic Falkland.
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