Windygates

Windygates
Windygates
	Cameron Bridge distillery
	Windygates Location within Fife
Population	1,800 (2022)
OS grid reference	NO 34670 511
Community council	Windygates;
Council area	Fife;
Lieutenancy area	Fife;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEVEN
Postcode district	KY8
Dialling code	01333 (north of River Leven) & 01592 (south of River Leven)
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
	List of places UK Scotland 56°11′34″N 3°03′16″W / 56.192738°N 3.054414°W

Windygates is a small village and surrounding district in central Fife, Scotland.

The district encompasses the following villages, farms and estates; Wellsgreen Farm, Little Lun Farm, Woodbank Farm, The Maw (a former mining community on the Standing Stane Road), Cameron Farm, Isabella (an abandoned mine), Smithyhill, Cameron Bridge, Bridgend, Durie Estate, Duniface Farm, Haughmill (a former weaving community), Drumcaldie, The Meetings (confluence of rivers Leven and Ore), Bankhead of Balcurvie Farm, Fernhill, Fernbank (both former farms), Balcurvie village (a former weaving community), Little Balcurvie (now known as the small holdings), Hawthorn Bank, Kennowayburns and Windygates village itself.

Housing demands of the 20th century brought all of these, almost forgotten identities, together into a district now commonly known as Windygates.

Windygates is off the A911, west of its sister village Milton of Balgonie, north of Kirkcaldy on the A915 and south of Kennoway on the A916.

The Windygates Hotel at the village cross was originally a coaching inn, and there were toll gates at the cross until the late 19th century, when the village grew to accommodate the nearby Cameron Bridge distillery.

Famous residents

Historian Gordon Donaldson lived his final years in Windygates and died there.

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, who was born in a house on Charlotte Square in Edinburgh, had a family home in Windygates - Haig House - which was commissioned by his father in 1849. An infectious disease hospital was established within the grounds of the house in 1912, and the whole site would eventually join the National Health Service in 1948 as Cameron House.

References

^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

Sources

Scottish Places

External links

Media related to Windygates, Fife at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

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