Pettycur is still as beautiful as ever, and whatever the season the skies never cease to amaze. We are privileged to live here so it is good to revisit my virtual tour of Fife post 6, several years later.
The new edition of ‘The Healing Paths of Fife’ is available. All profits to Kirkcaldy Foodbank.
We are fortunate that Pettycur Bay and harbour are only a few minutes away from where we live. In fact, we lived in a flat at Pettycur Bay back in 2013 with a view over towards The Forth Bridge.
In days gone by it was from here that the ferry took the traveller over the water by ferry to Leith, Edinburgh.
It was at Pettycur that King Alexander III fell off the cliffs and died and a monument commemorates his life and death near to The Bay Hotel on Burntisland Road. (which over looks the bay and towards Edinburgh on the opposite coast)
Kinghorn’s own skiff, built by local boat builders and launched with aplomb, is called Yolande after the late king’s wife.
Witches were said to have met their deaths from the cliff top near the cemetery and on a dark day this is not hard to imagine as…
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Diana Jackson 