Kemback

Kemback (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Bac)[1] is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland, located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Cupar.

The present village was developed in the 19th century to house those working the flax mills on the nearby Ceres Burn.

The field was originally full of wooden huts, and the hill, and surrounding areas in the parish, were covered in aerials.

Wartime records of the Station's use for radio interception as part of the network of Y-stations for German Enigma machine transmissions are still restricted, and have not been released into the public domain.

A local condition called The Drop or The Ague is recorded in the histories of the Lairds of Kemback, and the archive of the Archbishop John Spottiswoode(1565–1639) which, although cannot be confirmed, is probably a form of malaria, similar to that seen in the Somerset levels.