Spring Road Trip Drive From Elie On Visit To Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, from Elie, East on the A917 coast road, past St Monans, on ancestry visit to the High Street in Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife. The late 17th to early 18th centuries saw a number of notorious witch hunts in Pittenweem by the local minister. The burgh was bogged down in debt and witchcraft was used as an excuse to improve the financial position by seizing the assets of some local women. The Church of Scotland building at the top of the High Street adjoined the Tolbooth which was used as the jail for some of the Pittenweem witches, and the door to the cells can still be seen. It is the studded door at the bottom of the tower. The A917 is the scenic coast road from Elie to St Monans, Pittenweem, Anstruther and Crail in Fife through many of the charming East Neuk fishing villages to St Andrews. Neuk is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the East Neuk is generally accepted to comprise the fishing villages of the most northerly part of the Firth of Forth and the land and villages slightly inland All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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