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Hope Street Cemetery

Hope Street Cemetery (also known as Inverkeithing Cemetery) is a cemetery in Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland.

Location

Hope Street Cemetery is in the south of Inverkeithing, overlooking Inverkeithing Bay. The railway line running to and from the Forth Bridge, around to the southeast, abuts the cemetery to the east.

History

During the Great Scottish witch hunt of 1649–50, executions were carried out at the site of Hope Street Cemetery on land known as Witch Knowe. Today this land is within Hope Street Cemetery and Witchknowe park.

The Commonwealth Graves Comission lists 12 dead of World War I and World War II buried in the cemetery. Inverkeithing War Memorial in the town centre commemorates these and all the 166 men of Inverkeithing who died during both wars.

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