📌 Town in Fife
★★
With the biggest beach in Fife, Burntisland’s attraction is obvious. Overlooked by the steep slopes of The Binn (worth the walk), the town began life under the name of Wester Kinghorn, with a thriving fish trade and links to Dunfermline Abbey. In 1541 it gained Royal Burgh status and continued to develop as a port and shipbuilding centre – with ferries connecting to Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth. These have long since ceased since the building of the Forth Bridges, but the dockyards remain an important local industry. And for visitors? Burntisland perhaps lacks the “quaint” feel of some other Fife seaside towns, and much of the beach actually turns out to consist of oozy mud, but its central railway station makes it a convenient destination particularly if you’re travelling by public transport. Allow an hour or two to wander along the shortish High Street, look around the local museum and visit the beach – backed by The Links with a fairground in summer.
🌍 Location
📌 Fife
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 234859
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.059844,-3.230687
🚶 The Museum of Communication is on the High Street, and our walk to Kinghorn starts here too. Burntisland beach is easily walkable across The Links via a railway underpass.
🚆🚌 There are trains from Edinburgh, Dundee and many Fife towns. Local & regional buses call here from Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy & several other nearby settlements.
Explore nearby
<1 mi away
>> Burntisland Beach ★★
>> Museum of Communication ★★
<3 mi away
>> Kinghorn Harbour Beach ★★★ (2 mi →)
>> Pettycur Bay ★★★ (2 mi →)
>> Walk: Seafield Tower – Kinghorn & castle coastal ★★ (2 mi →)
>> Aberdour page: Aberdour ★★ & village sights (3 mi ←)
