Lumphinnans
Lumphinnans (Scottish Gaelic: Lann Fhìonain) is a small, former mining village along the B981 road, from west to east between the towns of Cowdenbeath and Lochgelly, in central Fife.
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Lumphinnans Primary and Community School is the local primary school, its facilities available under a community use programme in the evenings.[1] Sporting facilities are also available at Lumphinnans Sports Hub[2] and Lumphinnans Bowling Club, founded in 1909. Lumphinnans United A.F.C. play in the amateur football Kingdom of Fife AFA[3] at Ochilview park.
The name Lumphinnans is derived from the Scottish Gaelic lann, 'church', of (Saint) Fhìonain or Fillan, with early sources indicating both as possibilities.[4][5] The -s suffix denotes a division of the lands into northern and southern parts.[5]
Historically, the village had nearby collieries, an ironworks and a brickworks.[6][7]
Lumphinnans was nicknamed as "Little Moscow" in the 1920s and 1930s for the area's support of communism.[8] The local left-wing council named a road Gagarin Way in the Russian cosmonaut's honour, which inspired a play of the same name by Scots playwright Gregory Burke.[9]
