Map Of Fife

  A town in NE Fife, situated on the Firth of Tay opposite Dundee and lying between the Tay road and rail bridges where it forms an urban area that includes Wormit and Woodhaven. It owes its existence to a ferry that crossed the firth here from at least the 12th century from a site once called Seamylnes. The town expanded during the 19th century, firstly with the building of a new harbour in the 1820s to a design by Thomas Telford, and secondly with the development of a fashionable residential commuter settlement for wealthy Dundee jute manufacturers. Formerly known as New Dundee, the greater part of this settlement was built on the Tayfield Estate of the Berry family and includes many interesting examples of Victorian architecture.
  The 3.5-km-long Tay Rail Bridge, designed by W.H. Barlow & Sons and opened in 1887, replaced the earlier bridge of Thomas Bouch which collapsed in 1879 a year after its completion. To the east, the Tay is crossed by the 2-km-long concrete multispanned Tay Road Bridge which was designed by Fairhurst & Partners and opened in 1966. Newport has a bowling club and the Waterstone Crook Sports Centre.

A village in the Howe of Fife between Falkland and Freuchie. The disused Bonthrone Maltings date from the 19th century.

  A former ferry port on the River Forth opposite South Queensferry now located at the northern ends of the Forth Rail and Road Bridges. The ferry crossing is said to take its name from Queen Margaret who regularly crossed the river here travelling to and from her chapel at Edinburgh Castle. On her death in 1093 the Queen made her last crossing on the royal ferry to her resting place at Dunfermline Abbey which was subsequently given the ferry rights by her son David I. In medieval times the route became popular with pilgrims to the shrines of St Andrew and St Margaret.
  Between 1867 and 1893 the ferry crossing was controlled by the North British Railway which built the Forth Railway Bridge (1890). Ferries continued to operate between North and South Queensferry until 1964 when the Forth Road Bridge was opened to traffic. Its Town Pier was built by John Rennie in 1810-18 and extended for steamships by John Telfer in 1828. The Railway Pier dating from 1877 was later used by car ferries. At the Pierhead is the Signal Tower with its hexagonal copper-domed lantern (c.1810).  Designated a conservation area in 1984, North Queensferry is now largely a dormitory village. Its chief tourist attractions are the two bridges and the Deep-Sea World marine aquarium.

  A village on the A907 4 miles (6.5 km) west of Dunfermline, situated at the meeting of the Comrie, Blair and Carnock burns. Originally associated with the Oakley Iron Works which were established in 1846, the settlement was revitalised in the 1930s after the opening of the nearby Comrie coal mine. The white-harled Church of the Most Holy Name, notable for its magnificent stained glass windows and carved Stations of the Cross, was built to the south of the village in 1956-8 for Roman Catholic miners who had moved from Lanarkshire to work in the more prosperous coalfields of W Fife.
  Oakley has a small industrial centre, community centre and a football park (Blairwood Park) which is the home ground of Oakley United. The village is overlooked by a folly known as Blair Tower and has schools that include Inzievar School and Holy Name Primary School.

A small dormitory village to the west of Rosyth in W Fife. Formerly an agricultural settlement, it was designated a conservation area in 1974.

  A residential district of N Glenrothes situated to the east of Collydean, between Western Avenue and Pitcairn Avenue. Pitcairn Outdoor Centre is located here and most of its streets and courts are named after Scottish artists.

  A village in the Howe of Fife, situated on the River Eden 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Cupar. It is the only village in the parish of Cults and largely developed during the 19th century in association with the Priestfield Maltings and nearby lime works. Its former cattle fair was the scene depicted in a famous painting by Sir David Wilkie who was born at Cults manse in November 1785 and went to school in Pitlessie.

  A village in Ceres Parish, E Fife, situated on the Ceres Burn at a road junction to the south of Dura Den and 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Cupar. It was the home of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie who wrote the first vernacular prose history of Scotland entitled the Historie and Cronicles of Scotland, 1436-1565. The nearby Pitscottie Moor was a favourite meeting place of Covenanters during the late 17th century and during the 1820s the village became a centre of flax spinning. There is an 18th-century bridge over the Ceres Burn.

  A fishing village in the East Neuk of Fife, situated on the Firth of Forth between St Monance and Anstruther. Designated a burgh of regality in 1452 and a royal burgh in 1541, Pittenweem developed a prosperous trade with the Low Countries in medieval times. Its harbour, which succeeded the earlier 'Boat Haven', was first built in stone c.1600 and many of its houses have been restored by the National Trust for Scotland under its Little Houses Improvement Scheme. Interesting buildings include the parish church, which largely dates from the 16th century; Kellie Lodging, the restored 16th-century town house of the earls of Kellie; and the ruins of Pittenweem Priory, a foundation of the Augustinian canons who came from the Isle of May in the 13th century. In the cliff face beneath the priory is St Fillan's Cave which was the alleged retreat of St Fillan in the 7th century.
Pittenweem, which still has a thriving fish market, also has bowling and tennis facilities and an annual festival in August.

  A small village in Kilmany Parish, NE Fife, situated on the A914 3 miles (5 km) north of Cupar. Kilmany Primary school and Parish Hall are located here. In medieval times the lands of Rathillet supported the Dominican priory in Cupar and in 1679 one of its inhabitants, David Hackston, was one of the Covenanting murderers of Archbishop James Sharp. To the north lies the beautifully landscaped Mountquhanie Estate, once the property of the earls of Fife.

A town and dockyard complex on the S coast of Fife, west of Inverkeithing. Taking advantage of the deep, tidal-free water off St Margaret's Hope, the Admiralty decided in 1903 to build a naval base and dockyard here. The town of Rosyth was planned as a 'garden city' to house the workers and construction of the dockyard and naval base, which extends over 1,248 acres of reclaimed land, began in 1909. The first vessel to be repaired was HMS Zealandia which entered No 1 Dock in March 1916.
  During the Cold War years after World War II the dockyard and its associated naval base were developed as a refitting centre for conventional and nuclear Polaris submarines as well as frigates, minesweepers, and offshore protection vessels. Government plans to refit Britain's Trident nuclear submarine fleet elsewhere and the decision to close the adjacent Royal Naval Base by April 1996 were severe blows to the future of Rosyth which had become the largest industrial site in Scotland and the largest employer of labour in Fife.
  The future of the complex was secured by the dockyard's proximity to the fast-expanding high tech and corporate business communities of Dunfermline's bridgehead area. Babcock International, which had taken over management of the facility in 1987, acquired it in 1997, making the Rosyth Royal Dockyard the first privatised dockyard in Britain.
  Notable modern buildings in the town include the domestic housing on Queensferry Road (1919), the Anglican Church of St Margaret (1969), and St John's Primary School (1989). Rosyth has a leisure centre, library, three primary schools and additional industries such as the manufacture of drilling equipment and weighing equipment located on the Primrose and Belleknowes industrial estates.

A former weaving village in W Fife with many interesting 18th-century cottages that have survived despite the extensive development of mining in the neighbourhood during the 19th and 20th centuries. Running parallel to the Saline Burn, its main street stretches down a slope that looks towards the Ochil Hills, with Saline Hill rising to a height of 1,178 ft (359 m) to the north-east. Held for many years by the earls of Mar, Saline was often visited by Sir Walter Scott who stayed at nearby North Kinneddar, the home of his friend William Erskine, Lord Kinneddar, to whom he dedicated the Third Canto of his novel Marmion. The village has a 9-hole golf course, a community leisure centre, a primary school (built as Saline Public School in 1875) and a parish church (Saline & Blairingone Church) built in 1810 to a Tudor Gothic design by William Stark.

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