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St Andrews
Confident, poised and well groomed, if a little snooty,
ST ANDREWS
is Scotland's oldest
university town
and a pilgrimage centre for
golfers
from the world over, situated on a
wide bay on the northeastern coast of Fife. Of all Scotland's universities, St Andrews is
the one most often compared to Oxford or Cambridge, both for the dominance of
gown over town and for the intimate, collegiate feel of the place. he university attracts
a significant proportion of English students including, famously, Prince William, who
spent four years studying here. here's an open, airy feel here encouraged by the long
stretches of sand on either side of town and the acreage of golf links all around.
St Andrews is compact and easy to walk around. With its medieval layout intact, its
three main streets, almost entirely consisting of listed buildings, run west to east past
several of the original fifteenth-century university campuses towards the heavily ruined
Gothic
cathedral
. here's little left of the town's
castle
, which sits on the promontory a
little further north.
St Andrews Cathedral
North St • April-Sept daily 9.30am-5.30pm; Oct-March 9.30am-4.30pm; grounds year-round 9am-5.30pm • £4.50, joint ticket with
castle £7.20; grounds free; HS
he ruin of the once-great
St Andrews Cathedral
gives only an idea of the importance
of what was once the largest cathedral in Scotland. hough founded in 1160, it was
FIFE
HIGHLIGHTS
Himalayas putting
green, St Andrews
The East Neuk
Falkland Palace
Forth Rail Bridge
Culross
Dundee
Tayport
N
Tay
Bridges
TENTSMUIR
FOREST
Perth
Balmerino
Leuchars
Newburgh
St Andrews
Cupar
Dunning
Ceres
Kingsbarns
Auchtermuchty
Hill of Tarvit
Auchterarder
Peat Inn
Gleneagles
FIFE
Crail
Falkland
Scotland's
Secret Bunker
Lower Largo
Kellie Castle
Kinross
Loch Leven
Castle
Anstruther
Pittenweem
Glendevon
St Monans
Largo
Bay
Yetts o'Muckhart
Markinch
Glenrothes
Leven
Elie
Earlsferry
Loch
Leven
Isle of May
Dollar
Kirkcaldy
Dunfermline
Kincardine
Burntisland
Culross
Dalgety
Bay
North Berwick
Kinghorn
Kincardine
Bridge
Rosyth
Aberdour
Inverkeithing
Grangemouth
Inchcolm
Inchkeith
Forth
Bridges
North Queensferry
Bo'ness
0
5
Linlithgow
EDINBURGH
miles
