Pittenweem

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 207

Pittenweem, a small seaport of Fife, a royal (since 1542) and parliamentary burgh (St Andrews group), 3\frac{1}{2} miles NE. of Elie by rail, with fisheries. There are ruins of a 12th-century priory. Pop. (1891) 1962.

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