Difference between revisions of "The Falkland Wiki"

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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!

An old house in Mill Wynd, since demolished

Welcome to The Falkland Wiki – 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, its history, previous names, and special features. Starting on World Photography Day, 19 August 2020, volunteers have been taking photographs of buildings throughout the town.

Why not check out our associated websites: The Falkland Society and Historic Falkland.

Falkland in context

Dated panel on the Lomond Tavern

"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.

What's on this site?

Ladieburn Cottage and Moncrief House, viewed from the Palace battlements

Within our area, we aim to include:

every listed building and every scheduled monument.
all Falkland buildings mentioned in the main books about the buildings of Fife:
- Gifford, Fife (Buildings of Scotland series)
- Pride, Kingdom of Fife (Architectural Guides to Scotland)
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:
- Playfair and Burgess, Falkland and its people 1901–1913 including Maps A, B, C and D.
- A Falkland Guide, including a Town Trail (Map T)

To see how much we've achieved so far, and what is still left to do, see our "About page".

Exploring this site

The Provost's Lamp

This site is a Wiki – 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.

Click on any word or phrase in blue to go 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.

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 font-weight:bold; border:transparent; text-align:left; color:white; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Welcome!</h2>
 [[File:Mill Wynd.jpg|thumb|right|150px|An old house in [[Mill Wynd]], since demolished]]
-Welcome to '''Falkland Historic Buildings''' &ndash; the online encyclopaedia of Falkland  and its tangible heritage -
+Welcome to '''The Falkland Wiki''' &ndash; 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''',
+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,
+its history, previous names, and special features. Starting on World Photography Day, 19 August 2020,
-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.
+Why not check out our associated websites: [https://falklandsociety.org.uk/ The Falkland Society] and [https://historicfalkland.scot/ Historic Falkland].
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@@ Line 22: / Line 22: @@
 "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 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 much smaller [[Royal Burgh of Falkland]], from 1458
-*the '''Falkland Estate''', which has grown and shrunk over the years
+*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).
+*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''' &ndash;
+[[List of listed buildings|Listed Buildings]] &ndash;
 listed by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) for their special architectural or historic interest;
-the historic core of Falkland includes the '''Falkland Conservation Area''',
+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 [[Falkland Palace gardens]], and
-the '''House of Falkland designed landscape'''.
+the [[House of Falkland designed landscape]].
 But it's not easy to find out about the listed buildings or even where they are.
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 [[File:Moncrief House 1 2019.JPG|thumb|right|upright=0.9|[[Ladieburn Cottage]] and
 [[Moncrief House]], viewed from the [[Falkland Palace|Palace]] battlements]]
-Within our area, we aim ultimately to include:
+Within our area, we aim to include:
 *every [[List of listed buildings in the Parish of Falkland|listed building]] and every [[List of scheduled monuments in the Parish of Falkland|scheduled monument]].
 *all Falkland buildings mentioned in the main books about the buildings of Fife:
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 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
+*Click on any word or phrase in blue to go to the item in question (words in red are links to an article that hasn't been written yet).
-(words in red are links to an article that hasn't been written yet).
+*Click on any picture to see a larger version.
-Click on any picture to see a larger version.
 *Explore our records [[:Category:Streets and roads|street by street]].
 *browse by [[:Category:Main categories|category]]: to get an overview of the range of material that we cover.
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 *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: [https://falklandsociety.org.uk/ The Falkland Society] and [https://historicfalkland.scot/ Historic Falkland].
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