Crail
Crail is a former royal burgh, parish and community council area in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The locality has an estimated population of 1,630.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,810 residents
- Description: former royal burgh in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Crail, Fife”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crail Museum and Crail Parish Church.
Crail Parish Church
Church
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crail Parish Church is an ancient church building in Crail, Fife, Scotland. It is Category A listed, its oldest part dating to the 12th century. The walls and gravestones of its kirkyard are also Category A listed.
Fife Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fife Ness is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs". Fife Ness Lighthouse is situated 2 miles northeast of Crail.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingsbarns and Kilrenny.
Kingsbarns
Village
Photo: S.moeller, Public domain.
Kingsbarns is a village and parish in Scotland lies near the eastern coast of Fife, in an area known as the East Neuk, 6.5 miles southeast of St Andrews and 3.6 miles north of Crail. Kingsbarns is situated 3 miles northwest of Crail.
Kilrenny
Village
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilrenny is a village in Fife, Scotland. Part of the East Neuk, it lies immediately to the north of Anstruther on the south Fife coast. The first element of the name is from the Scottish Gaelic cill, meaning 'church'. Kilrenny is situated 3 miles southwest of Crail.
Cellardyke
Village
Cellardyke is a village in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The village is to the immediate east of Anstruther and is to the south of Kilrenny. Cellardyke is situated 3½ miles southwest of Crail.
Crail
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.26068° or 56° 15′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.62671° or 2° 37′ 36″ westPopulation
1,810Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CRJOpen location code
9C8V796F+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 26347904OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Crail” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Crail”
- Basque: “Crail”
- Catalan: “Crail”
- Cebuano: “Crail”
- Chinese: “克雷尔”
- Czech: “Crail”
- Dutch: “Crail”
- French: “Crail”
- German: “Crail”
- Irish: “Cair Ail”
- Irish: “Cair Aile”
- Irish: “Cathair Aile”
- Italian: “Crail”
- Japanese: “クレイル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crail”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crail”
- Norwegian: “Crail”
- Persian: “کریل، اسکاتلند”
- Polish: “Crail”
- Russian: “Крейл”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cair Ail”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cair Aile”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cathair Ail”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cathair Aile”
- Spanish: “Crail”
- Swedish: “Crail”
- Ukrainian: “Крейл”
- Welsh: “Crail”
- “Cair Ail”
- “Crail”
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