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Looking South across Dalgety Bay and the Firth of Forth, March 2006
Dalgety Bay, a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth.

Dalgety Bay is the name of the town and the bay which fronts a large proportion of the shoreline. The bay was named after the original village of Dalgety, but the ruins of the 12th century St. Bridget's Kirk are all that now mark the site. St. Bridget's Kirk was in existence some time before 1178, as it is mentioned in a Papal Bull written by Pope Alexander III. The new town takes its name from the main bay it adjoins, but the town stretches over many bays and coves including Donibristle Bay and St David's Bay.

The site of the new town once formed part of the estates of the Earl of Moray, part of whose mansion, Donibristle House, still exists but has been converted into luxury apartments. The area consisted of the Earl's extensive ornamental gardens and of a number of small villages.

During World War I Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray donated a portion of his land to the Crown, which built a military airfield there. The Royal Air Force improved and expanded the aerodrome during World War II, and constructed an extensive aircraft maintenance facility there. Work done at this facility included repainting radium dials on bomber gauges, and during subsequent planning for the newtown in the area, investigators found that the radioactive material used in this process had contaminated the ground.

The current newtown of Dalgety Bay, built largely as a commuter town (anticipating the completion of the nearby Forth Road Bridge in 1964), dates from 1962. The town covers the land of the (by then disused) airstrip and much of the remaining ground of Donibristle House. Named after the neighbouring small bay in the Forth Estuary, Dalgety Bay ranked as the first "private enterprise new town" in Scotland. Although the developers removed most of the airstrip, small sections of the runway remain (including the apron of an aircraft factory which forms the town's tennis court). Donibristle Industrial Estate (immediately to the north of the town) also stands on part of the former runway. Like nearby Dunfermline, Dalgety Bay functions largely as a dormitory suburb of Edinburgh and to the rest of Fife.

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View from the Western part of the Dalgety Bay residential development looking southwest towards the Forth Bridge, March 2006

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Firth of Forth (Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe) is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh, and East Lothian to the south.
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The title Earl of Moray (pronounced "Murry") has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland. Prior to the formal establishment of the peerage, numerous individuals ruled over Moray with the title of mormaer or earl.
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New Town may refer to:
  • New town, a generic name for a planned city development or expansion
  • In the United Kingdom, any of a specific set of towns created under various Acts of Parliament for population moved out of London.

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Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland. The bridge, built in 1964, spans the Firth of Forth, connecting the capital city Edinburgh at South Queensferry to Fife at North Queensferry.
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Dunfermline
Gaelic - Dùn Phàrlain
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commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commute out of the community to earn their livelihood. Most commuter towns are suburbs of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily, and many suburbs are commuter towns.
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