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Markinch Parish Church – Bruce Fountain, Falkland loop from Markinch

Markinch Parish Church – Bruce Fountain, Falkland loop from Markinch

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Markinch Parish Church – Bruce Fountain, Falkland loop from Markinch

02:04

49.2km

290m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 24, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 132 m for 11 m

After 49.1 km for 11 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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809 m

Markinch Parish Church

Highlight • Historical Site

Hard to miss on the top of a hill in the centre of town, it's said there has been religious worship taking place on this site since the 6th Century.

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6.90 km

Celtic Cross in Freuchie

Highlight • Other

Lovely Fife village at the foot of the Lomond Hills.

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21.2 km

Collessie Church and Historic Hamlet

Highlight • Historical Site

A very ancient hamlet (the church was rededicated in 1243!) well worth a mooch around to explore and take in the atmosphere. Some new build and a Victorian railway line …

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22.4 km

Trafalgar Inn and Crossroads Collessie

Highlight • Monument

Site of a coaching inn that opened in 1803 and was renamed after the Battle of Trafalgar that occurred 1805, when it was allegedly staffed by injured veterans from that …

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26.2 km

A beautiful natural fishing loch set in the rolling Fife hills above the Tay Estuary. Attractive at all times of the year, especially in the summer when the many water lilies around the edge are in flower.

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30.1 km

Lumbennie Strip

Forest

31.3 km

Route from Lindores to Auchtermuchty

Highlight • Trail

33.1 km

Auchtermuchty Common

Nature Reserve

40.2 km

Bruce Fountain, Falkland

Highlight • Monument

Bruce Fountain stands proudly in the centre of the small town of Falkland. Some might recognise it from its appearance in the TV series 'Outlander'.

There's a few little shops …

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49.2 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

35.4 km

6.65 km

5.79 km

884 m

238 m

141 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

46.7 km

2.40 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (110 m)

Lowest point (40 m)

Weather

Saturday 9 May

13°C

2°C

16 %

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Markinch Parish Church – Bruce Fountain, Falkland loop from Markinch

Markinch Parish Church

Celtic Cross in Freuchie

View of the Lomond Hills

Collessie Church and Historic Hamlet

Trafalgar Inn and Crossroads Collessie

Lindores Loch

Route from Lindores to Auchtermuchty

Bruce Fountain, Falkland

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