A short hill-walk in Fife close to the town of Burntisland. The trek to the top of The Binn offers awesome views over the Firth of Forth and across the water to Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills. The Binn is only 191 metres high, but views of the surrounding land and water are out of this world, making this a little hike that will blow those cranial cobwebs away.
On the eastern side of The Binn are the remains of an abandoned village: Binnend. Binnend was linked to the Scottish shale oil industry, an industry that only lasted several decades in this area, from the 1880s to the beginning of the twentieth century. The village was created to provide a workforce for the shale oil works, but when the works closed down there was no reason for the village to exist, and over the years it gradually became abandoned.
The population of Binnend - sometimes referred to as High Bin - was over 500, while the nearby village of Low Bin, sitting on the east side of the oil works, was almost 200, so this was a sizeable settlement, complete with rows of stone-built housing, a school, mission-hall, football ground, and a couple of shops.
Nothing now remains of Binnend, other than a few stones and bits of wall in an overgrown woodland. It is one of many of Scotland's lost and abandoned villages, a casualty, like the many lost coal-mining villages, of the decline in Scottish industry.
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