{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2017}} thumb|Gagarin Way '''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.
Lumphinnans Primary and Community School is the local primary school, its facilities available under a community use programme in the evenings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fife.gov.uk/facilities/primary-school/lumphinnans-primary-community-school |title=Lumphinnans Primary Community School | Fife Council |publisher=Fife.gov.uk |date= |accessdate=2020-05-27}}</ref> Sporting facilities are also available at Lumphinnans Sports Hub<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifeleisure.org.uk/locations/lumphinnans/ |title=Lumphinnans - Fife Sports and Leisure Trust |publisher=Fifeleisure.org.uk |date=2018-05-24 |accessdate=2020-05-27}}</ref> and Lumphinnans Bowling Club, founded in 1909. Lumphinnans United A.F.C. play in the amateur football Kingdom of Fife AFA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kingdomoffifeafa.pitchero.com/club-info|title=Clubs - RJM Sports Kingdom of Fife AFA|website=kingdomoffifeafa.pitchero.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.scot/Gaelic/placenamesK-O.pdf |title=Kalemouth (Roxburgh) |date= |accessdate=2017-05-20}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=175 |title=Fife Place-name Data :: Lumphinnans |publisher=Fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-05-20}}</ref> The -s suffix denotes a division of the lands into northern and southern parts.<ref name="auto"/>
Historically, the village had nearby collieries, an ironworks and a brickworks.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/build_nls_historic_map.pl?search_location=%2C%20Lumphinnans%2C%20Fife&os_series=1&latitude=56.113512&longitude=-3.336320&postcode= | title=Detailed Old Victorian Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile Old Map (1888-1913), Lumphinnans, Fife Co-ordinates 56.113512, -3.336320}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/lumphinnans-brickworks-lumphinnans-fife/ |title = Lumphinnans Brickworks, Lumphinnans, Fife | Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry}}</ref>
Lumphinnans was nicknamed as "Little Moscow" in the 1920s and 1930s for the area's support of communism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Devine |first1=Thomas Martin |last2=Mitchison |first2=Rosalind |last3=Dickson |first3=Tony |last4=Treble |first4=James H. |title=People and Society in Scotland: 1914-1990 |date=1992 |publisher=John Donald Publishers |isbn=978-0-85976-212-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmdnAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sierz |first1=Aleks |title=Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today |date=16 January 2011 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4081-1239-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCrk3WXPwgEC |language=en}}</ref>
== Notable people == *Abe Moffat (1896–1975), trade unionist, communist activist and union president *Alex Moffat trade unionist, communist activist and union president *Jock Rattray, footballer *Jimmy Philp, footballer *Lawrence Storione (1867–1922), founder of the Fife Communist Anarchist League * Kenny Adamson professional Football Player *Joe Temperley, jazz musician
== See also == :* ''Gagarin Way'', play, the title of which comes from a Lumphinnans street name in honour of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/aug/04/theatre.edinburghfestival2001 |title=Theatre: Gagarin Way | Stage |work=The Guardian |date= |accessdate=2020-05-27}}</ref>
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