St Andrews Cathedral
Once the largest building in Scotland and the centre of the medieval Scottish church, stripped and abandoned after the Reformation. The tower gives the best view over the town and the links.
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Hidden gems in Fife
Fishing villages, a famous links, and a coastline you can walk end to end
The East Neuk of Fife is a string of small fishing villages along the north shore of the Forth, each one a working harbour with a few hundred residents and, increasingly, a strong community of makers, galleries and food producers. St Andrews at the top of the coast brings the golf crowds and a university; the villages below it stay quiet.
The Fife Coastal Path links the whole lot on foot. Here's what to look for, and who's open.
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Map of Fife
The towns and landmarks of this region. Business pins appear here as listings are added.
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Towns & villages
Where to look in Fife
Places worth slowing down for in this region. We don't have listings in any of them yet — if you trade in one, you can be the first.
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St Andrews
The Home of Golf, a ruined cathedral and castle, and Scotland's oldest university.
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Anstruther
The largest East Neuk harbour town, and the boat out to the Isle of May.
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Crail
A tiny, much-painted harbour with a cobbled slipway and creel boats.
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Pittenweem
Fife's main working fishing port, and home to a well-established arts festival.
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Elie
A sandy bay, a watersports centre and a coastal walk to the ruined chain walk.
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Falkland
An inland village beneath the Lomond Hills with a Renaissance royal palace.
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Landmarks
The famous bits
Worth seeing in their own right, and a good way to get your bearings in the region.
The Old Course, St Andrews
Golf has been played here since the 15th century, making it the oldest course in the world. It's a public course — anyone can enter the daily ballot — and the Swilcan Bridge is free to walk to on a Sunday when play stops.
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St Andrews Castle
A ruined bishops' castle on the cliff edge, with a bottle dungeon cut into the rock and a siege mine and counter-mine you can still crawl through from the Reformation-era conflict.
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Falkland Palace
A Renaissance hunting palace of the Stuart monarchs in a village beneath the Lomond Hills. Its royal tennis court, built in 1541, is the oldest still in use anywhere in the world.
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The Isle of May
A national nature reserve an hour by boat from Anstruther, home to tens of thousands of puffins in early summer along with guillemots, razorbills and a large grey seal colony.
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The Fife Coastal Path
117 miles from the Forth to the Tay, but the East Neuk stretch between Elie and Crail is the best of it — harbour to harbour, beach to beach, and easy to walk in sections.
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