St Fort

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.[4] 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.[5]

Sandford House Hotel
For the French former commune, see Saint-Fort.

St Fort

St Fort Hill
St Fort
Location within Fife
OS grid referenceNO4125
Civil parish
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWPORT-ON-TAY
Postcode districtDD6
Dialling code01382
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament

Further south, the area was formerly served by St Fort railway station, on the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line.[6] 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.[7][1][2][8][9] Its restoration as a residence and holiday cottages was documented in the BBC television series Restoration Home.[10][11][12]

The area is one of the origins of the surname Sandford.[13] 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.[14]

References
  1. "Fife Place-name Data :: St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  2. "Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  3. "Fife Place-name Data :: Naughton". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  4. "Fife Place-name Data :: Naughton". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
  5. "St Fort | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
  6. Contributors, Ewan Crawford. "St Fort - RAILSCOT". www.railscot.co.uk.
  7. "Sandford House near Newport on Tay, from hotel to haven". www.scotsman.com.
  8. "Sandford House from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info.
  9. Stuff, Good. "Sandford Hill Hotel, Kilmany, Fife". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
  10. "History". Sandford Country Cottages.
  11. "BBC Two - Restoration Home, Series 2, Sandford House". BBC.
  12. "Restoration Home: Sandford House (Before and After) | History Documentary | Reel Truth History". YouTube. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  13. 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.
  14. "Fife Place-name Data :: St Ford". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
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