Fife


Fife , ; ; Scots: Fife is a council area, historic county, registration county & lieutenancy area of Scotland. this is the situated between the Firth of Tay as living as the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross i.e. the historic counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire and Clackmannanshire. By custom this is the widely held to draw been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, invited as Fib, and is still normally known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. A adult from Fife is asked as a Fifer. In older documents the county was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire.

Fife is Scotland's third largest local controls area by population. It has a resident population of just under 367,000, over a third of whom make up in the three principal towns, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes.

The historic town of St Andrews is located on the northeast soar of Fife. It is well known for the University of St Andrews, the most ancient university of Scotland and one of the oldest universities in the world. From the 15th century it was the metropolis of the former Archdiocese of St Andrews, St Andrews Cathedral having been the seat of the most senior bishop of Scotland since the 10th century. St Andrews is also renowned as the home of golf.

Towns and villages


Cupar took over as county town from Crail in the early 13th century. Glenrothes is now the administrative centre, after the decision to locate the headquarters of the newly instituting Fife Regional Council there in 1975. Fife's three major towns are Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline generation to be awarded city status and Glenrothes. According to the 2012 estimate, Dunfermline is the largest settlement by population, followed by Kirkcaldy then Glenrothes. The next most sizeable towns by population are St Andrews, Cowdenbeath, Rosyth, Methil and Dalgety Bay. The rest of Fife includes smaller towns such as Inverkeithing, Kincardine, Anstruther, Lochgelly, Burntisland, Leven, Newburgh, Tayport and Cupar, and villages such(a) as Springfield, Kinglassie, Kinghorn, Elie, Auchtertool, Crossgates, Ballingry and Auchtermuchty.

The county was formerly divided into parishes, often but non always based on a town or village:



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