Crossford, Fife

[3] The school has ten teaching areas in a semi-open plan arrangement, plus a separate nursery class.

Businesses in the village include a Pharmacy and Post Office, supermarket (Co-operative), bakers, hairdresse, beauty salon, chip shop, with garage and fireplace sales situated to the east.

[4] The Keavil House Hotel stands in 12 acres (5 hectares) of grounds to the west of Crossford[5] and its meeting facilities, restaurant and health club with swimming pool are an amenity for the village and surrounding area.

Crossford boasts the King George V Memorial Park playing fields, opened in 1950 by the Countess of Elgin.

The community itself paid for the establishment of the facilities together with a Major Fiddes of the National Playing Fields Association.

[6] The floodlit, all-weather multi court was proposed by Crossford Recreation and the Environment, and will be used by schools and the community for five-a-side football, tennis, basketball, hockey, and netball.

Numerous pathways radiate from the village, to Dean Woods and Milesmark in the north, to Pitliver and Limekilns/Charlestown in the south, to Cairneyhill in the west and to Pittencrieff Park at Dunfermline, in the east.

Crossford can trace its history back into the distant past with Bronze Age discoveries having been made on Craigs Farm indicating agricultural activity into antiquity.

The route of the railway and the site of the Elgin Colliery are shown in a map in Chalmers' book, Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline.

[10] An 1856 map[11][12] shows a brewery at the west end of the village, and whinstone quarry to the north of the main road.

The building has been modified and extended in recent years, but still maintains some impressive stained glass and much of its original stature.

There is a designated Green Belt at the southeast of the village, between Waggon Road and Dunfermline which attracts a variety of birdlife; pheasant, wild geese, curlew, heron, et cetera.

Crossford Main Street looking west on a cold morning in March 2006