Abercrombie, Fife

Abercrombie
Scots: *Obar Chrombaidh*
Abercrombie Scots: Obar Chrombaidh;
	Abercrombie Location within Fife
OS grid reference	NO517027
Council area	Fife;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	North East Fife;
Scottish Parliament	North East Fife;

Abercrombie (Gaelic: Obar Chrombaidh) is a village in Fife , Scotland.

The apparent meaning is “mouth of the Crombadh stream”. [1] The only stream near here entering the sea is the Inverie Burn, also known as St. Monan's Burn,[2] which discharges at St. Monan's. We might suppose that Crombadh was an earlier name for the burn.

Abercrombie is situated 1 mi (1.6 km) north of the village of St Monans, and 8.4 mi (13.5 km) miles south of the town of St Andrews. Abercrombie was the former name of the parish of St Monans,[3] although both Abercrombie and St Monans had churches.

The hamlet is centred on Abercrombie Farmstead, dating from 1892, which was built on the site of an earlier 13th century building.[3][4] The lands of Abercrombie have been farmed by the Stewart family for many generations and they own the adjoining farmland of Craigiewells, just north of St Monans.

The land around Abercrombie was formerly owned by the Sandilands family and Sir James Sandilands was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Abercrombie in 1647. Lord Abercrombie wasted his estates following the death of his father and had to sell his properties in Fife in 1649. The title became extinct on the death of the second Lord Abercrombie in 1681.[5]

References

name="Pictish place-names as Scottish surnames: origins, dissemination and current status' (Nicolaisen, W.F.H.). Nomina. vol. 15. (1991-92), p 14. | quote= ‘Abercrombie was a barony and is now a village in Fife. There are medieval references to it in the twelfth century. While aber is Pictish, the specific element is a genitive -crombaidh of Gaelic crombadh 'bending'. The Gaelic adjective crom 'bent' from which it is derived may have replaced or 'translated' a Pictish word corresponding to Welsh crwm 'bent'.
North British Railway. West Highland Railway. Miller's Official Tourist Guide. 1904. Passing St. Monan's, St. Monan's Birn, and Cardross Castle, on the right, the next station is Elie...
"Abercrombie, Fife". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
Munro, David M. (2006). Scotland : an encyclopedia of places & landscapes. Gittings, B. M. (Bruce M.), Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Glasgow: Collins. ISBN 9780004724669. OCLC 225152110.
"Abercrombie or Abercromby". www.electricscotland.com. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

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[1] ="Pictish place-names as Scottish surnames: origins, dissemination and current status' (Nicolaisen, W.F.H.). Nomina. vol. 15. (1991-92), p 14. | quote= ‘Abercrombie was a barony and is now a village in Fife. There are medieval references to it in the twelfth century. While aber is Pictish, the specific element is a genitive -crombaidh of Gaelic crombadh 'bending'. The Gaelic adjective crom 'bent' from which it is derived may have replaced or 'translated' a Pictish word corresponding to Welsh crwm 'bent'.

[2] North British Railway. West Highland Railway. Miller's Official Tourist Guide. 1904. Passing St. Monan's, St. Monan's Birn, and Cardross Castle, on the right, the next station is Elie...

[GfS-3] "Abercrombie, Fife". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

[4] Munro, David M. (2006). Scotland : an encyclopedia of places & landscapes. Gittings, B. M. (Bruce M.), Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Glasgow: Collins. ISBN 9780004724669. OCLC 225152110.

[5] "Abercrombie or Abercromby". www.electricscotland.com. Retrieved 10 April 2019.