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Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It lies 5 miles north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town established around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a Police Burgh in 1890. According to population stats from 2008, Cowdenbeath has a fixed population of around 14081. Among this population, 48.5 per cent are male and 51.5 percent are female, which is consistent with the proportional split by gender in both the Fife and Scottish populations. Prior to 1850, Cowdenbeath was just a group of farms divided into four districts named after local farms. Local citizens of these centerpieces of expansion, which were combining into a single town, assembled to pick a name for the emerging town. The eventual choice was limited to either White Threshes or Cowdenbeath. The arrival of the Oakley Iron Company around 1850 was to have a continued impact upon Cowdenbeath, making the name synonymous with coal-mining for nearly 100 years. Shafts were sunk in the vicinity of the old Foulford Washer. It was in the mining for ore that the discoveries of the coal seams were made, and pits were sunk at every corner of the town. Characterising the northern perimeter of Cowdenbeath is a rural landscape, which merges into the Lochore Meadows Country Park, ‘The Meadies’. This previously industrial and mining landscape, which was home to various pit-heads including the Mary Pit, whose winding equipment structure looms over the park as a memorial to its significant mining history, is at present a very beautiful area which provides leisure and recreational outdoor amenities. For all your house upgrades, take care to choose dependable contractors in Cowdenbeath to guarantee quality.