Valleyfield, Fife
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High Valleyfield and Low Valleyfield are neighbouring villages in Fife, Scotland, midway between Dunfermline and Kincardine-on-Forth. Low Valleyfield is on the shore of the Firth of Forth, High Valleyfield on the ridge immediately to the north.
The population of High Valleyfield was 3062 in the 2001 Census; separate figures for the smaller settlement of Low Valleyfield were not published.
High Valleyfield was a mining village linked to the nearby Valleyfield Colliery which opened in 1908 and closed in 1978. The workings at Valleyfield connected to those at Longannet coal mine to the west, and under the river Forth to those at Bo'ness on the south bank of the river opposite.
Preston Island by Low Valleyfield, now largely a peninsula as the result of the landfill of ash from nearby Longannet power station, was the site of coal mining and major salt works from the 17th century onwards.
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