Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ore

Ore, a sluggish rivulet of SW Fife, flowing 17 miles east-by-northward through or along the borders of Dunfermline, Beath, Cleish, Ballingry, Auchterderran, Kinglassie, Dysart, and Markinch parishes, till it falls Into the Leven at a point 7 furlongs W by W of Windygates station. Its banks are everywhere flat, though in places prettily wooded; its current is muddy; and the trout, pike, and perch of its waters afford but indifferent fishing. See Lochore.—Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a sluggish rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Fife ScoCnty

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