North Fife Air Force

My view from north fife has an immense sky and today I noticed unusual aircraft activity. A large jet was locked in a clockwise circle of about fifty miles radius at about thirty thousand feet. Ummmmm, It went on for hours and still might be. My curiosity led me to phone R.A.F. Leuchars. A corporal advised me that there is nothing sinister, just an international exercise. An exercise in going round and round? or just seeing how large a carbon footprint can be made in a day.

North Fife Holiday let Auchtermuchty

This self catering holiday let is situated in the town of Auchtermuchty North Fife. In the summer there is a week long folk music festival and much else to enjoy. The town centre was used for the television series Dr Finlay.
Baincraig Lodge is centrally heated, double glazed and beautifully presented. Best suited to adults and children over 12, the lodge is situated in its own garden area with wonderful views over the valley to Falkland and the Lomond Hills. The accomodation offers 1 double en-suite and 1 twin bedroom adjacent to a large bathroom. In addition to lounge, kitchen and dining areas there is a utility room and wraparound verandah. The property is very well appointed and conveniently situated for St.Andrews, Perth, Stirling, Edinburgh etc.

North Fife Spirit of St Andrews

North Fife, Spirit of St Andrews.
There's no question that Dr Alister MacKenzie was one of the best golf course architects in the history of the game. Augusta National, Royal Melbourne, Cypress Point among many other famous layouts are proof of that fact. In the mid-1990s, MacKenzie's lost golf manuscript, written a year before his death in 1933, was found and finally published as The Spirit of St Andrews. Even all these years later, MacKenzie's thoughts on such topics as the golf swing, rules, great courses and holes, and golfers are interesting and intuitive.No Title Found .

North Fife St Andrews Links

Experience The Old Course, St. Andrews Links describes what it is like to play the most famous golf course in the world, in knowledgable words, stunning photography and artistically enhanced high-resolution images of the course.These images allow three-dimensional views of the humps and hollows which characterise The Old Course using a process which is unique to Optimize Golf. The traditional photography has been carefully selected to complement the imagery, and both are seamlessly integrated into the text of the book.
The text gives a brief but informative history of the town and the course and its clubs, and then describes the course as it is experienced today, as a play of five acts, with a prologue and denouement. The writing is by Richard Goodale, an acclaimed golf writer who has lived in Fife, Scotland for most of the past fifteen years. The Preface to the book has been kindly provided by Jack Nicklaus, Open Champion at St. Andrews in 1970 and 1978.Experience the Old Course St. Andrews Links .

North Fife St Andrews Anthology

Its ecclesiastical significance dates as far back as the fourth century, when St Regulus is claimed to have brought the relics of the saint there; its cultural importance dates from the early fifteenth century, when the world-famous university was founded there. More recently (since the seventeenth century) it has been well known as a centre for golf. This selection of short stories and essays is a wonderful literary celebration of this historic and venerable city which explore the multiple facets of its life and history It includes contributions from a wide range of authors, including A.L. Kennedy, Robert Fergusson, Alastair Reid, Ian Rankin, Samuel Johnson, Robert Burns, Don Paterson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid, Willa Muir, Douglas Dunn, Anna Crowe, Meagan Delahunt, Seamus Heaney, Rudyard Kipling, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, J.M. Barrie, Meg Bateman and Homer!The Book of St Andrews .

North Fife Buildings

One of Fife's most famous buildings include Dunfermline Abbey, with its sturdy Norman nave; St Andrews cathedral, the focus of the old University town on the North Sea coast; the foursquare post-Reformation kirk at Burntisland; the palace of Falkland, where James V became Britain's first patron of Renaissance architecture on the grand scale; and the little royal burghs along the coastal fringe, each with its harbour and its strings of vernacular houses presided over by the kirk and tollbooth. Cupar, at the centre of Fife's long peninsula, is the seat of local government and one of the most charming and prosperous of Scottish towns. Less well known are Fife's tower houses like Scotstarvit, the old seaboard castles of St Andrews and Ravenscraig, the picturesque Balgonie Castle and the thoroughly domesticated Kellie Castle. Of Fife's churches one of the most beautiful is Dairsie; and three centuries of inventive design in burial monuments come to an unexpected climax in a work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the MacDuff cemetery, East Wemyss. Fife (Pevsner Buildings of Scotland).

North Fife Mountquhanie bull

North fife Mountquhanie bull, some beast! Looks like a Hereford Cross to me, maybe you will know? This is one of two that sire the herd at mountquhanie farm.

North Fife Flisk November

Overlooking my house at Flisk North Fife today, a cold November one at that. Looking west to the Highland mountains beyond the river Tay.

North Fife Property to Let Mountquhanie

As can be seen this really is a beautiful rural location, full of history, in the Parish of Flisk North Fife, soft varied landscape to explore, wander in and enjoy. Click all photos.

Amidst the gentle, unspoilt countryside of Mountquhanie Estate, tucked away in the hills and woodlands 5 miles north of Cupar is Creich Castle Farmhouse. The property is located on historic Creich Farm, with glorious views over the surrounding countryside and at the foot of The Creich Craigs. This traditional Scots farmhouse has been tastefully modernised to form a delightful, spacious and comfortable property.

It stands apart from the farm buildings and next to 16th century Creich Castle, birthplace of Mary Bethune, one of the four ladies-in-waiting to Mary Queen of Scots.

North Fife Remembrance Newburgh

Today Remembrance Sunday in Newburgh North Fife, The fallen of past wars were acknowledged with the laying of Wreaths in commemoration of those who have sacrificed their lives.

North Fife Newburgh Waterside

Newburgh North Fife Boat Burning, This is how it looked prior to being lit, bedecked with flags and artwork produced by Newburgh Primary School.


Today the the remains of the boat, mostly ballast and iron, with a view in the distance of the Bear and Ragged Staff cut into the hillside of Parkhill Newburgh North Fife. Click on image to enlarge.