Kirkcaldy

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Located on the north shore of the River Forth, north of Edinburgh, was world renouned for the manufacture of linoleum.
The old term for the town was "Lang Toun" named because of the length of the "one street, a mile long" as described by Daniel Defoe. At the north end of the town id Ravenscraig Castle, founded in 1460 by James the II. Adam Smith, the world's most famous economist, indeed the father of modern economics, was born in 1723 in the small town.
Robert Adam one of Scotland's most famous Architects, was born in Kirkcaldy in 1728.