An ancient village in the East Neuk of Fife to the north of Lower Largo. Also known as Kirkton of Largo, the village is centred on its 12th-century parish church of Largo which was given to the Cistercian nunnery at North Berwick by Earl Duncan of Fife (1154-1204). A Pictish symbol stone and the headstone of the family of Alexander Selkirk (Defoe's Robinson Crusoe) are to be found in the churchyard and inside the church is a model of the Yellow Caravel, the ship of the Scottish admiral Sir Andrew Wood who defeated the English fleet in 1498. North of the church is the Jacobean-style Wood's Hospital or Wood's Houses, founded in 1665 and rebuilt in 1830.

  A village on the Firth of Forth, 2 miles north-east of Kirkcaldy. Created a burgh of barony in 1511 the 'Haven Town of Wemyss' developed first as a port with salt pans and later as a mining settlement. It was designated a conservation area in 1985 and has many picturesque buildings including an 18th-century Tolbooth, Wemyss Castle (c.1420) and many salters' and colliers' houses.

  A village to the north of the River Leven, between Markinch and the town of Leven. Situated at the junction of the A911, A915 and A916, Windygates was once an important staging post on the coach route linking N and central Fife with the Pettycur ferry across the Firth of Forth. Still a major road junction, the centre of the village is now bypassed by a dual carriage way. Windygates has companies engaged in haulage and the supply of fencing, and the Cameron Bridge Distillery, founded in the early 19th century by the Haig family and now owned by United Malt and Grain Distillers Ltd, is still in operation.

  A settlement forming part of the Newport-on-Tay urban area on the Firth of Tay in NE Fife. It lies between Wormit and Newport and was for many centuries the leading ferry port on the south side of the River Tay. It later became the northern terminus for the coaching route across Fife to the ferry port of Pettycur on the Firth of Forth.

  A settlement on the Firth of Tay in NE Fife, situated at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge and lying at the western end of the Newport-on-Tay urban area.
It developed as a Dundee commuter settlement after the opening of the Tay Bridge in 1887. Wormit, which claims to have been the first village in Scotland to install electricity, has a bowling club and a boating club.

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