TOTALLY BUNKERED IN FIFE RUN!

Sunday March 26th 2006

Key: s.p. = sign posted

* keep an eye on cars behind you

Instructions

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Mile

1 / Depart Corus Hotel car park by turning right.
2 / Continue to 1st roundabout - take 2nd exit s.p.Inverkeithing/Forth Road Bridge. / 0.5
3 / Continue to next roundabout and turn left signposted Inverkeithing B981 continue under the rail bridge.
Go right through Inverkeithing. / 0.8
4 / At roundabout take 2nd exit s.p. B981 Crossgates, then left again immediately at next roundabout s.p. to Cowdenbeath/Crossgates on B981. / 2.0
5 / Straight to Crossgates and continuing on to traffic lights, stay in right hand lane and continue out road. / 5.1
6 / Take left turn onto the B917 s.p. Hill of Beath, opposite Skene Concrete Works. / 6.3
7 / Enter Hill of Beath – past statue of Jim Baxter, footballer, beware of traffic calming measures, continue to top of village, watch for
3 SLEEPING POLICEMEN at top of hill.
8 / Skirt edge of Cowdenbeath. / 7.2
9 / At mini roundabout at bottom of hill, turn right to Kelty B917 . / 8.7
10 / Enter Kelty. / 9.0
11 / Turn right onto the B996 signposted Kinross. / 9.4
12 / Turn left on B996 Kinross road
Continue on B996 Kinross road / 9.7
13 / Leave Kelty.
Leave Fife and enter Perth & Kinross. Continue on this road through Blairforge. / 10.7
14 / Turn right at Blacknowes s.p. RSPB Nature Reserve, Scotlandwell B9097 / 11.1
15 / Vane Farm Nature Reserve on right. / 12.7
16 / Drive along side of Loch Leven. / 14.7
17 / Continue to junction at B920 / 16.2
18 / Straight on, main road bears left to B920 and soon after straight onto Leslie/ Glenrothes A911 minor road to Auchmuirbridge. Large pothole on left before top of hill. / 16.4
19 / At the Bridge over River Leven, turn right s.p. Leslie/Glenrothes A911. Twisty road. / 19.1
20 / Drive along main road A911 through Leslie to far end of village (abt. Mile) past church with steeple further, on left Reflexions Hairdressing, then *sharp left down hill on unmarked road, opposite the Clansman pub s.p. Falkland Lomond Hills.
Narrow road some passing places. / 20.4
21 / Drive down hill and follow road to right over a wee stone bridge with brown signpost to Craigmead, Lomond Hills, Falkland. / 21.5
22 / Ballingall Farm on left, and West Conland Farm on right.
Continue past Wester Glasslie Farm and Kingdom of Fife Falconry Centre & Trout Fishery. / 22.3
24.0
23 / Turn into Falkland’s narrow streets to the Square. Before Falkland Palace on left, turn sharp right along narrow road, s.p. Parking & toilets. 10-15mins. / 26.9
24 / Return to High Street past palace, turn right at junction on A912 onto the Kirkcaldy road.
*Right hand turn s.p. East Lomond Country Park picnic area. Follow road up to summit, where we stop for 10 mins. Narrow road, passing places. Potholes in car park. / 27.4
28.7
30.2
25 / Back down hill, turn right onto A912 to the New Inn Roundabout,
2nd left onto Cupar/St Andrews A914.
Drive through Muirhead and after a mile
turn right onto minor road s.p. Star/Kennoway. / 31.8
32.7
33.6
26 / Drive approx. 2 miles through woods and *turn left s.p.Kingskettle/Burnturk. Twisty roads, good road surface. / 35.8
27 / Pass Middlefield and Smithfield Farms, through Coaltown of Burnturk and Cults Hill to small crossroads just after old limekiln workings (on left).
Drive straight across and follow road to Paradise (Farm), Muirhead, to Kame Bridge, to junction with the A916. / 37.2
39.4
41.5
28 / Turn right for Kennoway/Leven A916, then take minor road first left to Lundin Links at old milepost. Largo Law ahead. / 42.2
29 / *Right turn, awkward junction, into Lundin Links. Up hill & at next corner Lundin Links Hotel on left, *turn sharp left, s.p.Lower Largo and Alexander Selkirk Statue. Very narrow roads. / 45.4
30 / Follow Emsdorf Road, junction left, Lower Largo, past Crusoe Hotel, brown s.p. straight on, two way, statue above house on left. Drive to end of road where we can turn round at car park. T-junction turn right back up to main road, go right onto the road to Upper Largo.
31 / After antique shop, turn left at milestone s.p. St Andrews A915. / 47.6
32 / Drive through Largoward (51.5mls). Continue to Inn at Lathones. / 52.7

Afternoon East Neuk Drive

1 / Turn left exiting car park, for about 1 mile. Into Largoward.
2 / Turn left at end of village s.p. Kilconquhar A914. / 1.1
3 / After c 3mls. Junction, turn left s.p. Pittenweem, Anstruther, Crail A917, then immediately 1st right s.p. Kilconquhar A914 in 1 mile. / 4.4
4 / Through Kilconquhar to end of village, main road turns left, s.p. Elie B941. / 5.7
5 / At junction turn left s.p. Elie A 917. Traffic lights on approach to Elie. / 6.1
6 / Follow road round to left in front of church and through village s.p. St Monans.
*Turn right at Toll House s.p.Ship Inn/ Harbour, Toilets. / 7.4
7 / Drive past harbour, Ship Inn on left. Follow road to end of harbour and loop round old warehouse/new flats, back up the road past the yachts back to main road in Elie. / 8.0
8 / Turn right onto main road to St Monans, abt. 2 mls. Go through the village. (Windmill on right at old salt pans, far side of St Monans). / 8.2
11.1
9 / Continue to Pittenweem A917. See May Island in distance. / 12.0
10 / Through Pittenweem to Anstruther. / 13.0
11 / Drive straight through Anstruther, sharp left bend into High St., past wee Town Hall on right and church, to mini roundabout - go straight across for Crail. / 13.6
12 / Drive through Cellardyke. Bypass Kilrenny, main road bears right, traffic lights at bottom of road narrows over old bridge, Kilrenny Church left. / 14.6
13 / Arrive Crail. / 17.3
14 / Continue along main road through Crail, on the Old St Andrews Road A917 past the Crail Garden Centre on the left, continue towards Kingsbarns. / 18.0

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Drive by Cambo House on right side of road. Past new Kingsbarns Golf Course and into Kingsbarns.

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Bad zigzag bends at Kenlygreen. Narrow bridge.

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17 / Drive past Boarhills on right. 4 ½ miles to St Andrews. / 23.3
18 / Down hill into St Andrews. At 30 mile signs, entrance to town, go straight across the double mini roundabout.
After bridge opposite the hospital on the left, Turn right along the Shore Road to the Harbour (along Balfour Place, past the Cathedral walls). / 27.0
27.3
19 / Follow road round the harbour (harbour access only) and looping back, turn right up through the archway, (past the Gents toilet), part of the Cathedral walls.
20 / Drive up the Pends to the top of the hill, to junction with the main road, where we turn right in front of the ruined Cathedral. / 27.8
21 / Follow road round to left and continue down to very end of North Street to mini roundabout, stay in right hand lane and go straight across s.p. for Edinburgh. / 28.4
22 / Before leaving the town, very soon after mini roundabout and just after the Rusacks Hotel on the right, sharp turn right down a narrow lane (Granny Clarks Wynd), opposite private road, Windmill Road. / 28.5
23 / Beware of pedestrians, continue across the golf course, 18th Hole to right, to the Bruce Embankment and West Sands. Turn left with beach on the right. / 28.6
24 / Stay left and take 1st left s.p. Links Clubhouse. Car Park. Speed bumps / 28.7
25 / Toilets and refreshments. Options: walk along the beach, (kite flying & land yachts most Sundays), visit the Golf Museum nearby, or go up into the town. / 28.8

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