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Glenrothes: Riverside Park
Glenrothes: Riverside Park Riverside Park, Glenrothes, Fife, Scot.

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Glenrothes, town, Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. Scotland’s second new town was established in 1948 to provide housing for coal miners near the experimental Rothes Colliery. When the coal-mining industry declined, new high-tech manufacturing and public administration employment sectors emerged. Pop. (2001) 39,300; (2011) 39,280.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Jeff Wallenfeldt.