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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.
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Gordon Brown of the Labour Party is the Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Cowdenbeath (;, ) is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland.
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 ").
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 and located
The area was divided into four districts named after local farms: Kirkford, Foulford, White Threshes and Cowdenbeath farm, located close to the present-day site of Central Park.
Cowdenbeath and Road
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.
After a solid spell at Hibs, Smith was allowed to leave Easter Road for Cowdenbeath in 2006.
Cowdenbeath and Central
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.
Levein quickly established himself in the first team at Central Park and soon became a target for larger clubs than Cowdenbeath.
They are William L. Clarke, who represents Ballingry and Lochore, and Alexander Maxwell, who represents Cowdenbeath Central.
* Central Park, Cowdenbeath, a football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland
The team's 2006 cup run was halted by Fife team Cowdenbeath who defeated the University 5 – 1 at Central Park on 9 December 2006.
Cowdenbeath and Park
On 18 May 2009, the Cowdenbeath head office was relocated to Evans House, John Smith Business Park, Kirkcaldy.
He played two games during the Willie Harkness era: a 1 – 0 win over Cowdenbeath on 26 November 1983 and a goalless draw with East Fife on 10 December 1983, both at Palmerston Park.
He guided the club to promotion into the Second Division via the Third Division play-offs, beating Queen's Park in the 2-legged semi-final and then Cowdenbeath in the 2-legged final in May 2009.
Cowdenbeath and town
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.
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Cowdenbeath also has a golf club which was originally built as a 9 hole course on the old Dora Coal mine site.
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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.
Riordan scored four goals in three games for Cowdenbeath, including a hat-trick in a 7 – 5 win away to Brechin City.
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* Helen Eadie ( MSP for Cowdenbeath )
On the 14th of May 2011, Brechin beat Cowdenbeath 4-2 on aggregate, in the 1st Division play offs Semi-Final, to set up a final with Ayr United, in which the victors secured 1st Division Football for season 2011-2012.
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.
This feat was in no small part aided by Rab Walls ' 54 League goals – the second highest seasonal total in Scottish League history – as well as Daniel Swann's 87th minute winner in the last game of the season, securing the championship for Cowdenbeath.
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.
The arrival of the Oakley Iron Company around 1850 was to have a long-lasting impact upon Cowdenbeath and make the name synonymous with coal-mining for almost 100 years.
Prior to this, coal had been mined at Fordell for over a century, but the discovery of the coal seams at the depth they were found came as a pleasant surprise, considering the dip in the coal strata at Fordell, as it was previously thought that the seams at Cowdenbeath would be at such a depth as to be almost unworkable.
The opening of the Dunfermline-Thornton railway, via Cowdenbeath, in 1848, enhanced the prospects for mining and pits were literally sunk in every corner of the area, primarily for ironstone, but when this became uneconomic around the late 1870s, for coal alone.
She graduated from Edinburgh University and worked as a teacher in Cowdenbeath before being adopted the ILP candidate for the North Lanarkshire constituency, which she won at a 1929 by-election, becoming the youngest member of the House of Commons.
* Dennis Canavan, the Scottish politician and Member of Parliament for Falkirk West was born in Cowdenbeath in 1942 and attended St Brides Primary School.
She graduated from university and worked as a teacher in Cowdenbeath before being adopted the ILP candidate for the North Lanarkshire constituency, which she won at a 1929 by-election, becoming the youngest member of the House of Commons.
Malcolm signed for Cowdenbeath in March 2011.
During his playing career he played for Cowdenbeath and Heart of Midlothian.
Levein subsequently signed for Lochore and after trials with several senior clubs he finally joined Cowdenbeath in 1981.
In November 1997 he was appointed as manager of Cowdenbeath and turned a struggling team into one that could challenge for promotion.
* Joe Dodds, a left-sided defender who played for Celtic, Cowdenbeath, Queen of the South and the Scotland national team
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