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Crossford

Crossford is a small village located in West Fife, Scotland.

Crossford
Crossford · Euchiasmus at English Wikipedia
The place

Crossford is a small village located in West Fife, Scotland. Its population was 2,358 in 2011. It is 1 mile west of the city Dunfermline, east of Cairneyhill, astride the A994.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crossford

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Dunfermline Abbey

    Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland parish church in Dunfermline, Scotland. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair.

    2.5 km · church in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pittencrieff Park

    Pittencrieff Park is a public park in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It was purchased in 1902 by Andrew Carnegie, and given to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year.

    2.3 km · public park in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Broomhall

    Broomhall House is the family seat of the Earls of Elgin, three miles south-west of Dunfermline, sitting above the village of Limekilns and near the village of Charlestown, in Fife, Scotland. The building was designated as a Category A listed building in 1971.

    3 km · building in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial Museum

    The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, dedicated to the life of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, "one of the great Scots of the 19th century.". The museum is operated by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and is housed in a category B listed building.

    2.6 km · museum in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

    The Dunfermline Carnegie Library opened in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 29 August 1883 and was the world's first Carnegie Library funded by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It was designed by Edinburgh architect James Campbell Walker who also designed the nearby Dunfermline City Chambers.

    2.7 km · public library in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Dunfermline City Chambers

    Dunfermline City Chambers is a municipal facility at the corner of Bridge Street and Kirkgate in Dunfermline, Fife. The building, which serves as home to the local area committee of Fife Council, is a Category A listed building.

    2.5 km · city hall in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Alhambra Theatre

    The Alhambra Theatre opened in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 14 August 1922. Designed by local architect John Fraser, it was constructed over a two-year period by George Stewart of Blantyre and is located on the corner of Canmore Street and New Row.

    2.9 km · theatre in Dunfermline, Scotland, formerly also used as a cinema and as a bingo hall · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Carnegie Hall

    Carnegie Hall is an Art Deco theatre located in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It was named after the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who was born in Dunfermline.

    3.2 km · Scottish theatre · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Leonard's Parish Church, Brucefield Avenue, Dunfermline

    St Leonard's Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland located on Brucefield Avenue, Dunfermline, Scotland.

    3 km · church building in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Abbot House, Dunfermline

    Abbot House is the oldest secular building in Dunfermline, Scotland. Lying in the shadow of Dunfermline's great abbey church, the core of the building is 16th-century.

    2.6 km · historic house incorporating a heritage centre, in Dunfermline, Scotland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Crossford

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 15 km · Glasgow (GLA), 62 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 92 km
Stations
Dunfermline City railway station, 3.2 km
  • Glasgow → Crossford
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Crossford
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–8
  • Aberdeen → Crossford
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Crossford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Crossford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's within bicycle range of Edinburgh but cyclists must cross the Forth via the old road bridge A9000, then use B981 Ferry Toll Road onto A985 west.

From Wikivoyage: Culross, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    120 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    145 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    200 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    202 km

If you know how people move in Crossford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Crossford

Crossford is 23 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.