📌 Town in Fife
★★★★
St Andrews sits on the east coast 10 miles south of larger Dundee. Despite only being Fife’s fourth largest settlement (and barely scraping into Scotland’s top 50), several superlative features make this a town well worth visiting, for a full day or more. The University of St Andrews is the oldest in Scotland and third oldest in the English-speaking world; its buildings and quadrangles are distributed liberally throughout town with many parts open to the public. Meanwhile, several fine golf courses and historic golf clubs make St Andrews the home of this sport – with a museum all about golf located close to the most famous course, St Andrews Links. Add several further museums, ruined cathedral and castle, excellent aquarium, botanic garden, thriving eateries and boutique shops, and two fine and underrated beaches to the list, and it’s clear this really is a place punching above its weight in terms of tourist attractions. Many visitors find the attractive central grid of shopping streets surprisingly small, but the large tourist influxes combined with a sizeable student population endows St Andrews with a bustling atmosphere for much of the year that’s rare in similar-sized Scottish settlements. There’s certainly nowhere else quite like it in Fife.
Holy Trinity Church 
West Port 
Blackfriars Chapel 
Swilcan Bridge, St Andrews Links golf course 
St Andrews from St Rule’s Church tower, St Andrews Cathedral 
Aquarium 
Botanic Garden 
Castle 
Cathedral 
East Sands 
St Andrews Museum 
West Sands 
St Salvator’s Chapel 
The R&A World Gold Museum 
Kingsbarns to St Andrews walk 
Wardlaw Museum
🌍 Location
📌 Fife
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NO 509167
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.340390,-2.795465
🚶 St Andrews is a rewarding place to explore on foot, with all the interesting local sights within a 20-min walk of each other.
🚌 The nearest railway station has frequent long distance trains from Aberdeen, Edinburgh and even London, but it’s a few miles away at Leuchars (with bus connection). It may be easier to use one of several direct bus routes from Edinburgh, Dundee or other towns in Fife.
🚗 Parking in the busy centre can be a little tricky during high season (and some of it has a charge), but there are plenty of free spots further out.
Explore nearby
<1 mi away
>> St Andrews Aquarium ★★★★
>> St Andrews Botanic Garden ★★★
>> St Andrews Castle ★★★★
>> St Andrews Cathedral ★★★
>> St Andrews East Sands ★★★
>> St Andrews Museum ★★
>> St Andrews West Sands ★★★
>> St Salvator’s Chapel ★★★
>> The R&A World Golf Museum (not yet featured)
>> Walk: Kingsbarns to St Andrews – three necessary nesses ★★★
>> Wardlaw Museum ★★
