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St Fort (/sənˈfrt/, /sntfrt/, /ˈsɑːnfərd/ or /ˈsɑːnfər/) is a rural area, largely in Forgan parish, Fife. The current form of the name is late eighteenth century, the origin being a sandy ford on the Motray Water,[1][2][3] in all likelihood the ford earlier known as Adnectan or Nechtan's ford.[3] St Fort Hill lies immediately to the south of Newport-on-Tay and William Burn’s St Fort House, a large baronial mansion, demolished in 1953, lay on its southern slopes. The Home Farm, to its west, survives.[4]

Sandford House Hotel
Sandford House Hotel

St Fort

St Fort Hill
St Fort
Location within Fife
OS grid referenceNO4125
Civil parish
  • Forgan
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWPORT-ON-TAY
Postcode districtDD6
Dialling code01382
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
  • North East Fife
Scottish Parliament
  • North East Fife
List of places
UK
Scotland
56.413°N 2.958°W / 56.413; -2.958

Further south, the area was formerly served by St Fort railway station, on the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line.[5] The triangular adjunct of the St Fort junctions, connecting the now-defunct Newburgh and North Fife Railway, lay to the station's south-east.

Baillie Scott’s Arts and Crafts style Sandford House Hotel, taking the earlier form of the area's name, lies immediately to the station's west, just into Kilmany parish.[6][1][2][7][8] Its restoration as a residence and holiday cottages was documented in the BBC television series Restoration Home.[9][10][11]

The area is one of the origins of the surname Sandford.[12] It is not to be confused with St Ford, 15 miles to the southeast in the parish of Kilconquhar, similarly sharing its origin as Sandford.[13]


References


  1. "Fife Place-name Data :: St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  2. "Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  3. "Fife Place-name Data :: Naughton". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  4. "St Fort | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
  5. Contributors, Ewan Crawford. "St Fort - RAILSCOT". www.railscot.co.uk. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. "Sandford House near Newport on Tay, from hotel to haven". www.scotsman.com.
  7. "Sandford House from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info.
  8. Stuff, Good. "Sandford Hill Hotel, Kilmany, Fife". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
  9. "History". Sandford Country Cottages.
  10. "BBC Two - Restoration Home, Series 2, Sandford House". BBC.
  11. "Restoration Home: Sandford House (Before and After) | History Documentary | Reel Truth History". YouTube. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  12. Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland (1993 ed.). Edinburgh: New York Public Library/Birlinn. p. 710. ISBN 1-874744-07-6. SANDFORD. From Sandford, now St. Fort in the parish of Forgan, Fife. William de Sandfor witnessed a charter of part of the lands of Carrecros (= Cairncross), c. 1239... Thomas Sandfurd was slain in 1538... The form Santford with unvoiced t due to the following f is the source of the popular etymology of the place name from a mythical St. Fort.
  13. "Fife Place-name Data :: St Ford". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.



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