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Dunfermline
The Auld Grey Toun
 Dunfermline
is built
on a hill dominated by the Abbey and
the ruins of the Royal
Palace, approximately four miles north of the River Forth. The town became Scotland's capital during the reign of Malcolm Canmore until the
Union
of Crowns in 1603. The town was made a burgh of regality in 1125 and this
was confirmed in 1588.
 
 Dunfermline is also the birthplace of
the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie who used his money to
buy Pittencrieff Park, which he denoted to the
town. On the eastern side of the town is the 39-acre Public Park, which was
designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and opened in 1863; the bandstand was added in
1888 as a gift from Mrs. Carnegie.
Buried beneath a car park is St. Margaret's Cave.
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