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Kirkcaldy High Street, Fife

Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy is a town on the coast of Fife, on a shallow bay on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. It is the largest town between the cities of Dundee and Edinburgh.

Kirkcaldy has an enterprising and industrial heritage and has been the home of man famous men, greatest of whom was Adam Smith (1723–90) "the father of modern economics".

This has long been nicknamed the Lang Toun; a reference to the mile-long main street of the early town, depicted so on maps as early as the 16th and 17th centuries. The street would eventually reach a length of four miles. (Read more)