St Fort

For the French former commune, see Saint-Fort.

St Fort
St Fort Hill
St Fort is located in Fife
St Fort
St Fort
Location within Fife
OS grid referenceNO4125
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Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWPORT-ON-TAY
Postcode districtDD6
Dialling code01382
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FireScottish
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56°24′47″N 2°57′29″W / 56.413°N 2.958°W / 56.413; -2.958

St Fort (/sənˈfoʊrt/, /seɪntfoʊrt/, /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

Further south, the area was formerly served by St Fort railway station, on the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line. 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.[5][1][2][6][7] Its restoration as a residence and holiday cottages was documented in the BBC television series Restoration Home.[8][9][10]

The area is one of the origins of the surname Sandford.[11] 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.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Fife Place-name Data :: St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  2. ^ a b "Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  3. ^ a b "Fife Place-name Data :: Naughton". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  4. ^ "St Fort | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
  5. ^ "Sandford House near Newport on Tay, from hotel to haven". www.scotsman.com. 2 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Sandford House from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info.
  7. ^ Stuff, Good. "Sandford Hill Hotel, Kilmany, Fife". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
  8. ^ "History". Sandford Country Cottages.
  9. ^ "BBC Two - Restoration Home, Series 2, Sandford House". BBC.
  10. ^ "Restoration Home: Sandford House (Before and After) | History Documentary | Reel Truth History". YouTube. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: St Ford". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
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