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Rosyth

Rosyth (pronounced Ross-sythe) (Scottish Gaelic: Ros Saidhe or Ros Saoithe) is a town with a population of approx 15,000 located on the Firth of Forth

Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland 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....
on Scotland

Scotland

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's east coast, three miles (4.8 km) south of the centre of Dunfermline

Dunfermline

Dunfermline is a town in Fife which had official City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom#Pretenders until 1970. It is located on high ground five miles from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth on the route of major road and rail crossings across the firth to Edinburgh and the south....
. Rosyth was built to form the coastal port of the modern city and Royal Burgh of Dunfermline in the early part of the 20th century. Rosyth is near to Inverkeithing, only separated by the M90 motorway.

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Rosyth (pronounced Ross-sythe) (Scottish Gaelic: Ros Saidhe or Ros Saoithe) is a town with a population of approx 15,000 located on the Firth of Forth

Firth of Forth

Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
's east coast, three miles (4.8 km) south of the centre of Dunfermline

Dunfermline

Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
. The port

Port

||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake....
has the only direct ferry

Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
service to the European mainland from Scotland (although this will stop September 2008 and restart in May 2009 under new operator Norfolkline).

Rosyth was founded in 1915 as a garden city - alongside other fellow new settlements in Fife, established as burghs, during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Rosyth is represented by the Dunfermline and West Fife

Dunfermline and West Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline and West Fife is a constituency represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the United Kingdom general election, 2005 from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies....
Westminster constituency, currently held by Willie Rennie

Willie Rennie

Willie Rennie is the Scottish Liberal Democrats Scottish MPs for Dunfermline and West Fife ....
MP for the Scottish Liberal Democrats

Scottish Liberal Democrats

The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the Federation structure of the Liberal Democrats; the others being the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh Liberal Democrats parties....
, and the Dunfermline West

Dunfermline West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline West is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
Scottish Parliament constituency, currently held by Jim Tolson

Jim Tolson

Jim Tolson is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament of the Scottish Parliament for the Dunfermline West ....
MSP for the Scottish Liberal Democrats

Scottish Liberal Democrats

Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
) and Pat Callaghan (Labour Party.)

Rosyth railway station

Rosyth railway station

Rosyth railway station serves the town of Rosyth in Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and lies on the Fife Circle Line, north of ....
is on the Fife Circle Line

Fife Circle Line

The Fife Circle is the local Rail transport service north from Edinburgh. It links all the towns of south Fife and the inner Firth of Forth facing them....
.

Schools

Kings Road Primary School (The school was severely damaged by a fire caused by a youth in June 2001. the school was considered too damaged and was re-built completely the next year)
Park Road Primary School
St Johns Primary
Camdean Primary School

Docks

The area is best known for its large dockyard, formerly the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth

Rosyth Dockyard

Rosyth Dockyard is a large naval dockyard in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, which today primarily undertakes refitting of Royal Navy surface vessels. Rosyth Dockyard is owned by Babcock PLC....
, construction of which began in 1909. The town was planned as a garden city

Garden city movement

The garden city movement is an approach to urban planning that was founded in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts, and containing carefully balanced areas of residences, industry, and agriculture....
with accommodation for the construction workers and dockyard workers. Today, the dockyard is almost 1,300 acres (5 km²) in size, a large proportion of which was reclaimed during construction.

Rosyth and nearby Charlestown

Charlestown, Fife

Charlestown, Fife is a town in Scotland on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, adjoining Limekilns and Rosyth. Like Rosyth, Charlestown was home to a sizable shipbreaking industry in the mid twentieth century...
were major centres of shipbreaking activity, notably the salvage of much of the German fleet scuttled at Gutter Sound

Gutter Sound

Gutter Sound is an inlet of the vast anchorage of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. Gutter Sound was the site of the mass-scuttling of the internment German Empire High Seas Fleet in 1919....
, Scapa Flow

Scapa Flow

Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Orkney Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy....
.

The associated naval base closed in 1994, and no Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
ships are permanently based at Rosyth, though there are frequent visitors.

Rosyth's dockyards became the very first in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
to be privatised when a company named Babcock International acquired the site in 1987. The privatisation followed almost a century

Century

A century is one hundred consecutive years.Centuries are numbered names of numbers in English#Ordinal_numbers in English and many other languages ....
of contribution to the defence

Defense (military)

Defence has several uses in the sphere of military application.Personal defence implies measures taken by individual soldiers in protecting themselves whether by use of protective materials such as armour, or field construction of trenches or a bunker, or by using weapons that prevent the enemy approaching them to initiate close combat....
of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
which spanned two World Wars and the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
with the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
, during which Rosyth became a key nuclear submarine

Nuclear submarine

A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by nuclear reactor technology, as opposed to a more conventional submarine layout consisting of air-breathing diesel engine which are used to charge batteries for underwater running....
maintenance establishment. When the final submarine refit finished in 2003, a project to undertake early nuclear decommissioning of the submarine refit and allied facilities - Project RD83 - began pre-planning. The project was funded by MoD, in accordance with the contractual agreement in place following the sale of the dockyard, but management and sub-contracting is the responsibility of the dockyard owner, Babcock Engineering Services , a member of the Babcock International Group. The main decommissioning sub-contractor is Edmund Nuttall, and work began in 2006. It is expected to complete in 2010, when most of the areas occupied by the submarine refit facilities will have been returned to brownfield status and be ready for redevelopment. The dockyard is the site for final assembly of the two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy's which are the outcome of the Royal Navy's CVF (future carrier) project.

The fifteenth century Rosyth Castle

Rosyth Castle

Rosyth Castle is a fifteenth century ruined tower house on the perimeter of Rosyth Naval Dockyard, Fife, Scotland.It originally stood on a small island in the Firth of Forth accessible only at low tide, and dates from around 1450, built as a secure residence by Sir David Stewart, who had been granted the Barony of Rosyth in 1428....
stands on the perimeter of the dockyard complex, at the entry to the ferry terminal and was once surrounded by the Firth of Forth on almost all sides, until land reclamation by the docks in the early 1900s.

Ferry to Zeebrugge

Since 2002 an overnight ferry

Ferry

Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port. Zeebrugge serves as both the international Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge and a seafront resort with hotels, caf?s and beach....
in Belgium

Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
. This service was discontinued by Superfast Ferries

Superfast Ferries

Superfast Ferries is a Greece-based ferry company founded in 1993 by Pericles Panagopulos and Alexander Panagopulos. Together with Blue Star Ferries, it is a subsidiary company of Attica Group, which is listed on the Athens Stock Exchange....
in September 2008, but will recommence in May 2009 under the new operator Norfolkline

Norfolkline

Norfolkline is a European multimodal short sea carrier, a subsidiary of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. It provides freight ferry services on the English channel, Irish Sea, and the North Sea, passenger ferry services on the English channel and Irish Sea, and logistics services across Europe....
. The service will have 3 sailings a week in both directions.

Redevelopment

Scottish Enterprise Fife is now working in partnership with various private sector organisations to explore the future development of Rosyth. The agency is looking at ways to expand the ferry services to other European and domestic ports. It also wants to help create new business infrastructure in and around Rosyth – which in turn will bring economic benefits to Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire....
and beyond.

Three areas around the port of Rosyth are being developed:

Surplus land and buildings owned by engineering giant Babcock, which operates the naval dockyard, is being offered to external companies.

The main dock area – operated by Forth Ports – is ripe. Since opening in 1997, the port has seen rising timber and cargo vessels use the facility. Its warehouse and logistics facilities make an ideal choice for exporters and importers.

A private developer owned site is being developed into an £80 million business park – called Rosyth Europarc. More than 13,000 square meters of office and hi-tech manufacturing have already been developed. Companies like Intelligent Finance and Bank of Scotland

Bank of Scotland

The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial bank and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to remain in existence....
are on site. To complement these developments, a new £8.4 million road is being built to provide an enhanced link to the nearby M90 motorway

M90 motorway

The M90 is a motorway in Scotland. It runs from Inverkeithing, at the north end of the Forth Road Bridge, to Perth, Scotland, passing Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath and Kinross on the way....
. Work began on the new road early in 2006, and it was completed in spring 2007.

Local company Cameron Harris Design & Build are currently developing prestigious office pavilions to the North of Rosyth at Masterton and are about to bring to the market industrial premises at Admiralty Park, where they have previously constructed premises for IDS and also Acorn Pets. Cameron Harris have lodged planning permission for the next phase of works at Admiralty Park, Rosyth which will home up to 60 jobs, the first company to relocate there is an well established European company who will use Rosyth as their UK headquarters

Famous People

Stevie Crawford, former Dunfermline and Scotland striker
The Draymin, Well known indie band who have played at T In The Park
T in the Park

T in the Park is a major music festival that has been held annually in Scotland since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents....
Sean Ellis, Young DJ & Producer from the Rosyth area.

Business interest

Norfolkline
Norfolkline

Norfolkline is a European multimodal short sea carrier, a subsidiary of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. It provides freight ferry services on the English channel, Irish Sea, and the North Sea, passenger ferry services on the English channel and Irish Sea, and logistics services across Europe....
Babcock International Group
Babcock International Group

Babcock International Group plc is a British-based support services company specialising in mobilising its engineering expertise to assist its customers in managing complex assets and infrastructure in safety-critical and mission-critical environments....
Cashmaster International Ltd.