Loch Leven Trail - Kirkgate Traditional Geocache
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Loch Leven Trail - Kirkgate
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The Loch Leven Heritage Trail is a circular trail around Loch Leven for 21km with lots of places to join and/or stop for refreshments en route.
The emphasis is on wildlife and Loch Leven’s status as a national nature reserve. The loch’s water, islands and reed-fringed shores are internationally important for nesting ducks and over-wintering wildfowl, with more than 20,000 pink-footed geese using the area. Whatever time of year you visit, there are plenty of birds to see and the three hides along the route are ideal places to sit and watch their goings-on.
Kirkgate Park is the main public open space in Kinross and lies to the south-east of the town, its grassy banks running down to a stretch of one of the northern shorelines of Loch Leven. The park is part of the estate of Kinross House, seat of the Montgomery family, though it has been leased to the local authority for public recreation for the best part of a century.
Signs of Iron Age human settlement are evident from the remains of a crannog in the loch. The burial ground at the east end of the park was the site of the original 12th century settlement of Kinross before the movement of townsfolk to a new site further to the west was encouraged in the 17th century. This allowed an undisturbed setting for Kinross House. The burial ground itself gives a fascinating insight into the history of the various trades of the Kinross townspeople.
The Cemetery has many very interesting gravestones as well as views over the loch to Loch Leven Castle Island, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned, and the Lomond Hills.
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