Inchkeith

Inchkeith is an island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

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The island features occasionally in a riddle, "How many inches is the Forth?", playing on a pun on 'Inch' (Innis) an old Gaelic word for island, and inch, the imperial measurement.

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Inchkeith is home to Inchkeith Lighthouse, designed and built in 1803 by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson. The light was automated in 1986 and the Northern Lighthouse Board sold the island to Tom Farmer, entrepreneur, founder of Kwik Fit and owner of Hibernian Football Club.

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The island has the lowest average rainfall in Scotland at 550mm (21.75inches) annually.

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Firth of Forth: The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh, and East Lothian to the south. The river is tidal as far inland as Stirling, but generally it is considered that the inland exte...

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Gaelic: Gaelic as an adjective means "pertaining to the Gaels", whether to their language or their culture....