Kingseat
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| country = Scotland
| official_name = Kingseat
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| population = {{Scottish locality populations|name|POP=Kingseat (Fife)}}
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| map_type = Scotland
| unitary_scotland = Fife
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| static_image_name = The Halfway House Hotel. - geograph.org.uk - 83404.jpg
| static_image_caption = Halfway House Hotel in the centre of the village
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Kingseat is a village in Fife, Scotland, approximately {{convert|1.5|mi}} northeast of Dunfermline. It was originally a coal mining village with the first pits sunk in the area in the mid 1800s.{{cite web|title=Home|url=http://www.kingseat.info/|website=kingseat.info|accessdate=27 January 2017 |archive-date=10 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210054905/https://kingseat.info/ |url-status=dead}} The name of the village is thought locally to have originated from when the king would visit the area{{Cite web|url=https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=473|title=Fife Place-name Data :: Kingseat|website=fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk |archive-date=21 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921193424/https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=473 |url-status=live}} to look out onto the River Forth and to Arthur's Seat.{{cite book|last1=Pitcairn|first1=Sheila|title=History of the Old "Fitpaths"and Streets of Dunfermline, Then and Now, Also Crossford, Halbeath, Rosyth, Townhill & Wellwood|date=2000|publisher=Pitcairn Publications|location=Dunfermline|page=449}}
Amenities
The village has a public park which includes a play area and a football pitch.{{cite web|title=Kingseat Public Park|url=https://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=B0898F7F-B121-000B-70E4D15EDBE0AC00|website=www.fifedirect.org.uk|accessdate=2 February 2017 |archive-date=3 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203081321/https://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=B0898F7F-B121-000B-70E4D15EDBE0AC00 |url-status=dead}} There is also a Community Leisure Centre,{{cite web|title=Kingseat Community Leisure Centre|url=http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=30D8D81C-0E58-427D-BCE25587822E77AA|website=www.fifedirect.org.uk|accessdate=2 February 2017 |archive-date=3 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203081207/http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=30D8D81C-0E58-427D-BCE25587822E77AA |url-status=dead}} a bowling club,{{cite web|title=Kingseat Bowling Club|url=http://bowlsclub.org/club/3746/|website=bowlsclub.org|accessdate=2 February 2017 |archive-date=30 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530202856/https://bowlsclub.org/club/3746/ |url-status=live}} a cattery, and formerly a shop with a post office.{{cite web|title=Businesses in Kingseat|url=http://www.kingseat.info/local_businesses.html|website=www.kingseat.info|accessdate=2 February 2017 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223102/http://www.kingseat.info/local_businesses.html |url-status=dead}}
There used to be a hotel in the centre of the village, The Halfway House, but it closed unexpectedly in early 2015.{{cite web|title=Villagers uncertain over Kingseat hotel’s future|url=http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/13519011.Villagers_uncertain_over_Kingseat_hotel_rsquo_s_future/|website=Dunfermline Press|accessdate=2 February 2017|language=en |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402194757/https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/13519011.Villagers_uncertain_over_Kingseat_hotel_rsquo_s_future/ |url-status=live}} The building was demolished in November 2020.{{cite web |title=End of an era as hotel comes down |url=https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/18887225.end-era-demolition-starts-halfway-house-hotel-kingseat/ |website=Dunfermline Press |access-date=26 November 2020 |language=en |archive-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201055105/https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/18887225.end-era-demolition-starts-halfway-house-hotel-kingseat/ |url-status=live}}
The village does not have its own primary school and instead falls under the catchment area for Townhill Primary School.{{cite web|url=http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=246B0996-3FF1-464B-87A4E0EDC52D8AF6|title=Townhill Primary School|website=fifedirect.org.uk|accessdate=27 January 2017 |archive-date=3 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203081057/http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=246B0996-3FF1-464B-87A4E0EDC52D8AF6 |url-status=dead}}