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Kinghorn is a large village of 3150 population, which boasts a charter making it a Royal Burgh, with a history going back to the medieval kings of Scotland. It was here that Alexander III died, leading to internal strife and a fight to retain independence from England.
Kinghorn nestles between the sandy, rocky coast and the loch.
The Kinghorn Artist’s exhibition has become a popular annual event in Fife since the first opening in 2003. The exhibition runs for nine days during the last week in July and is held in Kinghorn Community Centre. This year there will also be exhibitions in the newly completed gallery at the Station House.
The Craigencalt Rural Community Trust (CRCT) was launched on 3rd February with a brand new website. CRCT is dedicated to maintaining and improving the Craigencalt area of countryside around Kinghorn, for the benefit of residents and visitors alike. The charity will be working with everyone with an interest in the area, including the landowners, and this has already been very beneficial in opening up and improving Rodanbraes, the Doric Well Path, North Mire Path and completing a nesting platform and maintenance work on the jetty and the barley straw rafts.
The striking feature of the landscape are the remnants of volcanic vents and lava flows some 300 million years old. These form the nearby hill of The Binn (at 191 metres), the rounded peaks of the Lomond Hills to the north, the island of Inchkeith and of course the rock of Edinburgh Castle, Salisbury Crags and Arthurs Seat to the south. The Coastal Path looks out on numerous islets, rock pools and small beaches….…………….……….See More.
People often contact us with family history enquiries about Kinghorn or about the surname Kinghorn. Whilst we cannot help with individual enquiries we have put some sources here that people can follow up themselves. If you are researching an ancestor who lived in Kinghorn then we hope that you will find the links here useful. More links will be added with future updates.
Oh lonely loch my land of dreams
How far how far the memories seem
Yet lonely loch can I forget
The place where childhood sweethearts met
Where hand in hand we gaily wandered
And by the burn side meandered
Past the pond where duck and swan
Glide and chatter and adorn……………….
Look at the galleries of photographs of our wild flowers.
This will soon be expanded, now we have someone who can identify them!!!!!!!!!
Kinghorn Loch Users Group (KLUG) is a part of Craigencalt Rural Community Trust
(CRCT), a charity dedicated to the maintenance and enhancement of the countryside
around Kinghorn. There are many projects on the go on Kinghorn Loch and the paths.
KLUG brings together everyone with a love of the loch -
Plenty on the recreational front, and three holiday parks. The adjoining tourist
centres of Burntisland and Aberdour add to the range of attractions and all are connected
by train on the north-
Kinghorn beach is an attractive sheltered bay with plenty of sand and a great place for families. The boathouse of the Kinghorn Lifeboat is situated here and is called out to boats at risk in the open waters of the Firth of Forth. The beach looks out onto Inchkeith Island and across the firth to Arthurs Seat and the castle in Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills. See More
An unusually long cold spell this year [2009] has given us a white Christmas for
the first time in five years. …..….…… Do you want to add your own -
2009/10 winter followed by 2010/11 -
The fifth Come & Try event at Kinghorn Loch, organised by Kinghorn Loch Users Group, was another success. Despite a dull, rather cold day, the Canoe Club and Sailing Club were kept pleasantly busy all afternoon. There were teas and hot dogs to keep everyone warm. This year the event was extended to include displays from Kinghorn Pathways Group and the RSPB. See more.
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