Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Games Pipe Band Parade Burntisland Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Highland Games parade in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The 2nd oldest highland games in the world featuring highland dancing, pipe bands, heavyweights, races and piping. The earliest historical record of Burntisland was in the 12th century, when the monks of Dunfermline Abbey owned the harbour and neighbouring lands. The settlement was known as Wester Kinghorn and developed as a fishing hamlet to provide food for the inhabitants of Rossend Castle. The harbour was then sold to King James V by the abbots of Dunfermline Abbey in exchange for a parcel of land. The land was granted royal burgh status by James V in 1541. When the status was confirmed in 1586, the settlement gained independence from the barony of Kinghorn and was renamed Burntisland, possibly a nickname from the burning of fishermens' huts on an islet now incorporated into the dock.

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