This page is bound to be a bit random. Fife has many places worth visiting for all sorts of reasons – history, scenery, food etc. etc. Suggestions please.
Where to stay – visitscotland.com
Aberdour. Castle and caves.
Anstruther (“pronounced /ˈeɪnstər/”). Home to the Scottish Fisheries Museum and “The Famous Award Winning Anstruther Fish Bar“.
Auchtermuchty. Cycle Tavern, Jimmy Shand statue.
Burntisland. Mostly post industrial – Heritage Trail Leaflet.
Museum of Communication – Burntisland
Cambo House, Walled Garden and Snowdrop Gardens.
Ceres. Fife Folk Museum, Griselda Hill Pottery (Wemyss Ware).
Culross. Attractive village with many old buildings, including housing and a Palace, conserved with the help of the National Trust for Scotland.
Cupar. Developed as a market town.
Dunfermline. Once the Capital of Scotland. Has an Abbey, Palace and Pittencrieff Park.
Elie. Lovely beach. Tourism has largely replaced fishing.
Falkland. Another Palace. Ancestral home of Johnny Cash.
Glenrothes. Fife’s “New Town”.
Historic Scotland’s Places to Visit in Fife
Kincardine. Two bridges, a power station and the Police College.
Kirkcaldy. Famous for lino, the annual Links Market and its Museum and Art Gallery,
Leuchars. Railway station (closest to St. Andrews) and airbase with annual AirShow.
Lomond Hills and Regional Park (some photos)
Lower Largo. Splendid (former) railway viaduct and ‘home’ of Robinson Crusoe.
Newburgh. Laing Museum, Lindores Abbey. SteepleArts.
Newport-on-Tay. Southern end of Tay Road Bridge – cyclepath to Dundee.
Pillars of Hercules Organic Farm Shop & Cafe
Peat Inn. Hamlet with award winning restaurant of same name.
St.Andrews. Golf and undergraduates.
Tayport. Once visited by Ulysses S Grant.
Wormit. Southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge(s). It no longer has a station. The buildings are at Bo’ness on the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway.
