Places to visit
in Fife.

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Fife

Where to go in Fife.

Fife packs a great deal into a small kingdom. There are royal palaces and abbeys where Scotland's kings and queens lived and were buried, castles on the cliffs, and the old university town of St Andrews with its cathedral ruins and the most famous golf course in the world. Along the coast, fishing villages of red-roofed cottages step down to little stone harbours, and the coastal path links them all. Inland you'll find gardens, wooded glens and even a nuclear bunker hidden under a farmhouse. Whether you have a day or a week, these are the places in Fife we think are most worth your time.

Place of the day20 hours ago

Standing Stones of Lundin.

Three huge Bronze Age standing stones, about five metres tall, on a fairway of the ladies' golf course at Lundin Links in Fife.

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From our archive20 hours ago

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Fife this autumn, in our photographs.

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Places to visit20 hours ago

Lindores Abbey Distillery.

A distillery beside the ruins of Lindores Abbey near Newburgh, where a monk made aqua vitae in 1494, in the earliest written record of Scotch whisky.

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Did you know20 hours ago

Keny Drew, a stained glass maker based in Crail in Fife, trained as a photographer and now puts screen-printed images into his glass.

He gained an advanced diploma in illustrative photography at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing in 2000. He then worked with several stained glass companies, and found a way to fuse screen printing, photography and stained glass into a style of his own. Along the way he worked on large restoration projects in Scotland's churches, which gave him a grounding in the traditional craft. Today he makes his own clear textured glass in the kiln and mixes it with bold colour, light acid etching, hand painting and screen-printed images. The Scotsman has praised 'Keny Drew’s ingenious, evocative merger between photography, screenprinting and stained glass'. Every piece is made by hand to order at his studio in the East Neuk.

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From our guide19 hours ago

Chain Walk.

Make no mistake: this is not your average seaside stroll. Created by a local blacksmith back in 1929, this is Fife’s version of a via ferrata – a rocky, salty, chain-assisted clamber that stretches for nearly a third of a mile along the cliffs near Elie. It’s a serious undertaking, and you should leave yourself at least two hours to get from start to end. Be sure to check tide times – and remember to pack your head for heights.

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Places to visit19 hours ago

Tanhouse Brae.

A steep cobbled street of colourful houses in Culross, once the burgh's shoemaking quarter.

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In Fife19 hours ago

The Kinneuchar Inn at Kilconquhar is fifth in The Times' new list of Scotland's 75 best restaurants.

The village inn in the East Neuk was named alongside Inver, Glenturret Lalique, Gloriosa and Timberyard in the top five.

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From Issue 5 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 519 hours ago

Walking Through Time in Culross

A walk through Culross in Fife, from the palace George Bruce built on coal mined beneath the Forth to The Study, the Town House, the old wells and the abbey ruins.

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From our guide18 hours ago

Ravenscraig Castle.

Perched on a windswept clifftop above Kirkcaldy Beach, ravishing Ravenscraig Castle is thought to date back to 1460, and the reign of James II. Its gappy masonry and bulky foundations are these days exposed to the elements, but its thick walls were originally built to withstand heavy cannon fire.

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From the magazine18 hours ago

Issue 08Spring / Summer 2024

Mary, Queen of Scots is said to have shocked her courtiers by playing real tennis at Falkland Palace in Fife wearing trousers rather than a dress.

Real tennis is the forerunner of lawn tennis, a quirky game played inside walls with long-handled rackets. The palace, in the village of Falkland, was once the favourite country retreat of the Stuarts, and its court is billed as the oldest tennis court in the world still in use. The mansion still has a strong Renaissance feel, and the court is one of many reasons to visit. Falkland sits on the edge of the Lomond Hills, and on its outskirts Maspie Den has a woodland path that takes you right behind a waterfall.