Lochore Castle
Lochore Castle near Cowdenbeath in Fife is a ruined medieval castle on the edge of Loch Ore, now within the Lochore Meadows Country Park, an area of restored former opencast coal mining land that has been transformed into a major recreational landscape offering watersports, walking, cycling and wildlife watching. The castle ruins survive as a modest but atmospheric fragment of medieval heritage within this post-industrial reclamation landscape. Lochore Meadows Country Park is one of the largest country parks in central Fife, popular with local communities and visitors from across the central belt of Scotland. The loch supports populations of wildfowl and provides sailing and windsurfing facilities, and the park's transformation from opencast mine to recreational landscape is one of the most successful post-industrial reclamation projects in Scotland.