Duloch (or Duloch Park) is a mainly residential suburb of the Royal Burgh of Dunfermline, in Fife, Scotland. Duloch and the surrounding area is a dormitory suburb of Edinburgh - and it has close commuting links to Edinburgh and surrounding areas of Fife via the M90.
Correctly pronounced as du/doo-loch (from Scottish Gaelic Dubh) not dull-och.
The closest railway stations are Rosyth, Dunfermline Queen Margaret, Dunfermline Town, Dalgety Bay and Inverkeithing.
The lower price of new homes compared to homes across the Forth in Edinburgh, and proximity to the M90 motorway, has attracted many Edinburgh commuters.
Local amenities include two large supermarkets (Tesco and Aldi) and a small 'village' shopping area including a local restaurant/bar. The nearby 'Fife Leisure Park' contains a cinema, gym, bowling alley, Florida Style golf centre and other leisure facilities as well as several restaurants. There are currently three mainstream primary schools serving the area - Masterton, Duloch and Carnegies Primaries. Calaiswood special needs school is located within the campus of Duloch Primary in addition to a large public library, café, gym, and several halls mainly used for sports and community classes.
Duloch Park and Calais woods forms the heart of the Duloch suburb. Calais woods is an ancient woodland, maintained by the Woodlands Trust. The name derives from the Gaelic Coillius, meaning woodland and is correctly pronounced Kaleis and not like French Calais. To the east of the woods is Sandpiper Drive. This more of less follows the line of the Halbeath railway http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Halbeath_Railway/frame.htm.
Historically Duloch was spelled Dow Loch, as can be seen in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, made in 1654 by Joan Blaeu (1596–1673),[1] and the Roy Military Survey, 1747-1755.[2] Duloch comes from the Scottish Gaelic 'Dubh Loch' meaning Black Water - marshland prone to flooding. This is one reason for the large number of suds ponds (Sustainable Urban Drainage) in the area. Historic buildings include category A listed Old Duloch House, described as, "an ancient mansion; also a modern house, the occasional residence of its proprietor; and on a promontory near St. Margaret's Hope.",[3] to the south is Pitreavie Castle and doocot and to the east, across the motorway, Fordell Castle, the Fordell Estate and the Fordell Firs National Scout Camp.
The modern estate was developed as part of the 'Dunfermline and the Coast Local Plan' as developed by Fife Council from the late 1990s [1]. The land was mainly farmland until that point, though a few old stone quarries where also in the area. The Calais Woods Stone Quarry for example, was filled and housing developed on the site behind Tesco and Sandpiper Drive,
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