Hill of Beath (; Hill o Beath in Scots) is a hill and a village in Fife, Scotland just outside Dunfermline and joined to Cowdenbeath. The Hill of Beath was the location of a celebrated meeting of the Covenanters at which John Blackadder was one of the preachers.At that meeting, held in the summer of 1670 during the height of the struggle against episcopal rule, the Covenanters brought swords and pistols to defend themselves against attack. * Statue of Jim Baxter * A mixture of housing, public and private, looking towards Hill o' Beath * * * Woods planted on a restored open cast mining site. *