Gordon Brown of the Labour Party is the Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

There is no evidence of a permanent settlement establishing itself around the current site of Cowdenbeath until the designation of the original Beath Kirk as a parish church in 1429 / 30 to act as a focal point to serve the surrounding area.

Whilst for the main part Cowdenbeath is fairly level, there are significant portions of the town which have succumbed to subsidence as a result of the network of mineshafts and tunnels underlying the town.

Notably, there are photographs of Cowdenbeath High Street published in Stenlake Publications which depict Cowdenbeath High Street circa 1900, and which shows a flat High Street in which it is possible to view its entire length from north to south under the overarching railway bridge.

The western perimeter of Cowdenbeath merges into the neighbouring village of Hill of Beath, and is bound by the natural landscape of the gentle slopes of the hill itself, and by Loch Fitty.

The northern boundary of Cowdenbeath is characterised by a rural landscape, which merges into the Lochore Meadows Country Park (" The Meadies ").

Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre is located in Pit Road, next to Central Park in the centre of the town and has a swimming pool, gym, indoor sports facilities and three all-weather pitches for tennis or football.

Central Park is a rather dilapidated stadium in the centre of Cowdenbeath.

It is home to Cowdenbeath F. C.

Cowdenbeath is also served by one secondary school.

* Donald Findlay QC, born in Cowdenbeath on March 17, 1951 is a well known senior advocate and Queen's Counsel in Scotland.

He is now the chairman of Cowdenbeath FC.

Cowdenbeath railway station is situated just off the High Street, via a steep ramp to / from each platform.

Rosyth is within the Cowdenbeath constituency of the Scottish Parliament, currently held by Helen Eadie of the Labour Party, as well as the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

There had been a much earlier ( and unrelated ) Raith Rovers which merged with what is now Cowdenbeath in 1882.

Currently he is the player / manager at Cowdenbeath.

He is now playing for Cowdenbeath after being released from his second spell with Dunfermline.

Malcolm is training for East Fife since July 2012 and has been out of football since been released by East Fife's rivals Cowdenbeath in May 2011.

Fife is the largest operator in the region and is responsible for urban, rural and interurban services in the towns of St Andrews, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Methil, Glenrothes, Leven and Kirkcaldy.

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a county constituency representing the areas around the towns of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, in Fife, Scotland, in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It is separated from Cowdenbeath by the village of Lumphinnans.

Cowdenbeath Football Club are a professional Scottish football team based in the town of Cowdenbeath, Fife.

Cowdenbeath lies in south-western Fife, near to the larger town of Dunfermline.

Cowdenbeath Primary School serves the southern end of the town.

Cowdenbeath was the largest town in the constituency.

There are three other senior league teams in Fife with East Fife around 8 miles to the east, and Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline Athletic 9 and 14 miles respectively, to the west.

For the Scottish Parliament North Queensferry forms part of the Cowdenbeath constituency which falls within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

He was brought up in Fife, educated at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath, and, at the age of 15, won a scholarship to the University of St Andrews, where he studied medicine.

For the Scottish Parliament Inverkeithing forms part of the Cowdenbeath constituency which falls within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

Jim Dobbin was born in Kincardine on Forth, Fife, Scotland, the son of a coal miner, and educated at the Catholic Saint Columba's High School, Cowdenbeath, and the Catholic St Andrew's High School on Overton Road in Kirkcaldy.

The club shares rivalries with fellow Fife sides Cowdenbeath and Raith Rovers as well as Falkirk.

Cowdenbeath, who are the oldest surviving football club in Fife, lost in the inaugural Fife Cup final in 1883 but won the Cup for the first time in 1885.

When the Fife Coal Company subsequently took them over in 1896, the Cowdenbeath Coal Company's pits were listed as: Lumphinnans Nos.

Such was the upsurge in mining activity that the population of Cowdenbeath doubled ( 4, 000-8, 000 ) in the ten years between 1890 and 1900 and gave rise to the nickname " Chicago of Fife ".

The headquarters offices of the Fife Miners ’ Association were opened in Victoria Street on 8 October 1910, the first Mine rescue station opened at Cowdenbeath on 4 November 1910 on Stenhouse Street, opposite Beath High School.

The Central Works, Cowdenbeath, ( commonly referred to as " The Workshops ") were built in 1924 by the Fife Coal Company Limited in order to centralise its supervisory staff and to cope with the greater amount of manufacturing and maintenance work caused by the intensive mechanisation programme which was being introduced in its mines.

The team based in Cowdenbeath were known as the Fife Lions and featured riders from Edinburgh Monarchs and Glasgow Tigers in a series of challenge matches against league teams and scratch sides.

Born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife, Rankin attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath.

Head Office functions were amalgamated with Stagecoach East Scotland ( which also covers Fife and Perth operating areas ) at Guthrie House in Cowdenbeath.

* Cowdenbeath railway station, Scotland, National Rail station code COW

A more professional approach was ushered in with the appointment of former Scotland defender Craig Levein, who had begun his playing career with Cowdenbeath, as manager in 1997.

The following former Cowdenbeath players are all members of the club's Hall of Fame or recent players who are still playing at a higher level in Scotland ( as well as some notable loan players ).

Indeed, Queen Victoria's entourage stopped at the Cowdenbeath Coaching Inn to change horses, on her first trip to Scotland in 1842, en route for Balmoral.

* Joe Dodds, a left-sided defender who played for Celtic, Cowdenbeath, Queen of the South and the Scotland national team

* Central Park, Cowdenbeath, a football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland