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 is maintained by volunteers from The Falkland Society. It was created to preserve and display the outcome of The Falkland Listed Buildings Survey,
launched in August 2020 when our volunteers delivered leaflets 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 of buildings throughout the town.
"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, including Freuchie and Newton of Falkland
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 –
listed by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) for their special architectural or historic interest;
the historic core of Falkland includes the Falkland Conservation Area,
and two areas have been specially designated by HES:
the Falkland Palace gardens, and
the House of Falkland designed landscape.
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 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.
