Kinross

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Kinross's origins are connected with the nearby Loch Leven and its islands whose history goes back to the 5th century AD. Kinross developed as a staging post on the Great North Road from North Queensferry to Perth. In time, local industry developed and by the early 18th century the town had grown to a population of around 600 people. By the mid-19th century, a thriving wool weaving industry had emerged.{{Cite web|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kinross/kinross/index.html|title = Kinross Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland}} Kinross Town Hall was completed in 1841.{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB36299|desc= 110 High Street, Former Town Hall |access-date=12 July 2022}}

The site of the original Pre-Reformation parish church and churchyard is down a small wynd overlooking Loch Leven, a little away from the town. The church was dedicated to St. Serf and was under control of Dunfermline Abbey. Noteworthy ministers included John Colden from 1593 to 1640 and his son George Colden who served until 1665. The notorious Henry Christie was minister of Kinross 1679–89.Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

Rev Robert McGill served from 1698 until 1726, and recorded supernatural events in the manse in 1718. Rev Robert Stark was initially unpopular but served from 1732 to 1783.

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Kinross was originally linked by railway to Perthshire, Fife and Clackmannanshire until the rail links gradually disappeared. At one time three independent railway companies had their termini at the town. The Fife and Kinross Railway came from the east, the Kinross-shire Railway came from the south and the Devon Valley Railway came from the west. Kinross Junction railway station stood on the main line between Perth and Edinburgh, but this was closed in 1970 to make way for construction of the M90 motorway.{{Cite web|title=Proposals for direct Perth to Edinburgh train link to be considered by Transport Scotland|url=https://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/proposals-for-direct-perth-to-edinburgh-train-link-to-be-considered-by-transport-scotland|access-date=2020-10-23|website=www.railtechnologymagazine.com}} Since then, many people working within a commuting radius of Kinross have settled in the town owing to its central location and local amenities. Locals and Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have also asked the Scottish Government to publish a Feasibility Study into re-establishing the Perth–Edinburgh Direct Rail Link. {{asof|2021}}, no such document has been published.

Kinross is served by local and long-distance bus services including Megabus services M90, M91 and M92 which call at the Sainsbury's Park & Ride site off Junction 6 of the M90 motorway.

The burgh is located on the shores of Loch Leven. There are boat trips around the loch and to Lochleven Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots was held prisoner in 1567.

Up to 2014 the annual T in the Park music festival, which was officially replaced by TRNSMT festival in Glasgow Green, was held nearby, at the former RAF Balado Bridge airfield. This was also the location of a now decommissioned NATO ICBM early warning radar, and until the late 1950s was a training base for the Royal Air Force.

Kinross has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb).

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| single line = yes

| location = Kinross ({{convert|120|m|ft|abbr=on|disp=or|0}} asl, averages 1991–2020)

| Jan record high C = 14.7

| Feb record high C = 15.2

| Mar record high C = 21.3

| Apr record high C = 22.7

| May record high C = 26.9

| Jun record high C = 30.1

| Jul record high C = 31.7

| Aug record high C = 29.1

| Sep record high C = 26.7

| Oct record high C = 23.5

| Nov record high C = 17.1

| Dec record high C = 14.9

| year record high C = 31.7

| Jan high C = 6.1

| Feb high C = 6.9

| Mar high C = 8.9

| Apr high C = 11.7

| May high C = 14.9

| Jun high C = 17.5

| Jul high C = 19.3

| Aug high C = 18.9

| Sep high C = 16.4

| Oct high C = 12.4

| Nov high C = 8.7

| Dec high C = 6.2

| year high C =

| Jan mean C = 3.1

| Feb mean C = 3.5

| Mar mean C = 5.0

| Apr mean C = 7.2

| May mean C = 10.0

| Jun mean C = 12.8

| Jul mean C = 14.6

| Aug mean C = 14.2

| Sep mean C = 11.9

| Oct mean C = 8.5

| Nov mean C = 5.3

| Dec mean C = 3.1

| year mean C =

| Jan low C = 0.0

| Feb low C = 0.1

| Mar low C = 1.1

| Apr low C = 2.7

| May low C = 5.2

| Jun low C = 8.2

| Jul low C = 9.9

| Aug low C = 9.5

| Sep low C = 7.4

| Oct low C = 4.6

| Nov low C = 1.9

| Dec low C = -0.1

| year low C =

| Jan record low C = -18.4

| Feb record low C = -19.3

| Mar record low C = -14.5

| Apr record low C = -7.1

| May record low C = -3.2

| Jun record low C = -0.6

| Jul record low C = 2.5

| Aug record low C = 2.1

| Sep record low C = -1.4

| Oct record low C = -5.7

| Nov record low C = -11.7

| Dec record low C = -18.0

| year record low C = -19.3

|rain colour = green

| Jan rain mm = 122.9

| Feb rain mm = 95.7

| Mar rain mm = 81.4

| Apr rain mm = 60.7

| May rain mm = 61.4

| Jun rain mm = 73.2

| Jul rain mm = 83.1

| Aug rain mm = 92.3

| Sep rain mm = 80.1

| Oct rain mm = 110.4

| Nov rain mm = 109.6

| Dec rain mm = 111.3

| year rain mm =

| unit rain days = 1 mm

| Jan rain days = 16.8

| Feb rain days = 14.0

| Mar rain days = 13.8

| Apr rain days = 10.9

| May rain days = 11.3

| Jun rain days = 12.5

| Jul rain days = 13.0

| Aug rain days = 13.5

| Sep rain days = 12.6

| Oct rain days = 15.8

| Nov rain days = 15.9

| Dec rain days = 15.7

| year rain days =

| Jan sun = 31.9

| Feb sun = 66.9

| Mar sun = 110.1

| Apr sun = 156.4

| May sun = 188.9

| Jun sun = 151.2

| Jul sun = 161.9

| Aug sun = 157.8

| Sep sun = 121.8

| Oct sun = 80.7

| Nov sun = 46.0

| Dec sun = 22.0

| year sun =

| source = Met Office{{cite web |url=https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/gcvxf0h8c |title=Kinross (Perth and Kinross) climate information |publisher=Met Office |access-date=7 November 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231107114558/https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/gcvxf0h8c |archive-date=7 November 2023}}

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The Loch Leven Trails offer 21 km (13 miles) of walking and cycling heritage trails around the shoreline of Loch Leven. It runs from RSPB Vane Farm Nature Reserve via Findatie to Kinross Pier/Kirkgate Park.

There is a leisure centre located in Kinross, called Loch Leven Leisure.

Kinross Trout Fishery, situated just on the edge of the village, is one of Scotland's premier trout fisheries, giving fly and bait anglers the opportunity to catch some of Scotland's largest trout.

Kinross Colts FC is a community football club{{clarify|date=May 2023}} and registered charity with over 400 boys, girls, men and women playing in 16 teams within the club. They have two grounds locally, The Myre at Smith Street in Kinross and Donaldson Park in Milnathort.

Kinross is also home to Kinross Rugby Club, who play their games at King George V ground alongside Kinross Hockey Club. Locally the ground is known as KGV.

• Andrew Barlass, American politician and farmer, was born in Kinross.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1876,' Biographical Sketch of Andrew Barlass, pg. 475
• Steven Caulker lived with his aunt and uncle in Kinross when playing for Dundee F.C.
• Rev Henry Christie minister
• Eilidh Doyle Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete
• Adam Kelso Fulton, Scottish rugby union internationalist
• Peter Leitch, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Andrew Montford writer
• George Thompson whose posthumous Victoria Cross in 1945 is often cited as the best merited of the entire air war. He was the wireless operator in a Lancaster of No. 9 Squadron on a dawn raid against the Dortmund-Ems Canal when the plane was struck by a salvo of two 88 mm shells.
• William Whyte (banker) (1878–1945)

Kinross is twinned with:

• Gacé, France
• Traunstein, Germany

• Kinross High School (Now located in Loch Leven Community Campus as of 2010)
• Kinross Primary School

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• [https://www.kinrosscommunitycouncil.com/ Kinross Community Council]
• [http://www.kinross-pri.pkc.sch.uk/ Kinross Primary School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504121841/http://www.kinross-pri.pkc.sch.uk/ |date=4 May 2009 }}
• [http://www.freewebs.com/kinrossunited/ Kinross A.F.C]

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