What is recorded here
Wemyss coaltown still keeps its row of houses on Castle Drive, built for the men who fed Scotland's furnaces with black rock. The address sounds like a palace, but it belongs to sweat, soot and children running home through coal dust. That contradiction is the point: ordinary lives can sit inside grand-sounding names, and the name must bend back to them.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Coaltown of Wemyss, 1-4 Castle Drive as House(s) (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Coaltown of WemyssMilestone (19th Century) · 93 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 146 yd
Coaltown of Wemyss, Main Street, Coaltown of Wemyss Primary SchoolSchool (period Unassigned) · 175 yd
Coaltown of Wemyss, Main Street, Earl David HotelHotel (20th Century), Tenement (20th Century) · 472 yd
West WemyssCave(s) (period Unassigned) · 880 yd
Wemyss CastleHospital (first World War), Sundial(s) (period Unknown), Tower House (16th Century) · 933 yd
Naval Mine Victims MemorialMemorial · 1166 yd
Safir: West Wemyss Harbour, Firth of ForthSchooner (19th Century) · 1289 yd
Canterbury Bell: West Wemyss, Firth of ForthKetch (20th Century) · 1480 yd
Moss WoodWood · 1.0 mi
Fife coastal pathVisitor information · 1.3 mi
East Wemyss, Court CaveCave (iron Age), Pictish Symbol Rock Carving(s) (pictish) · 1.4 mi