Old Photograph Kirk Wynd In Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Kirk Wynd in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. A wynd is typically a narrow lane between houses. The name is frequently encountered in towns and villages in Scotland and Northern England. The word derives from Old Norse venda, meaning to turn, implying a turning off a main street, without implying that it is curved. In fact, most wynds are straight. In many places wynds link streets at different heights and thus are mostly thought of as being ways up or down hills. Cupar had in days gone by gates or ports, one of these stood at the west end of the Bonny-gate Called the West Port, one at the middle of the Lady Wynd called the Lady Port, one below the Castle called the East Port, one at the bridge called the Bridge Port, one at the mill gate called the Millgate Port and another at the Kirkgate called the Kirkgate Port.



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