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Glenrothes: Riverside Park
Riverside Park, Glenrothes, Fife, Scot.
Glenrothes
Scotland, United Kingdom
Glenrothes, town, Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. Scotlandās second new town was established in 1948 to provide housing for coal miners near the experimental Rothes Colliery. When the coal-mining industry declined, new high-tech manufacturing and public administration employment sectors emerged. Pop. (2001) 39,300; (2011) 39,280.
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