Kincardine (/kɪnˈkɑːrdɪn/ kin-KAR-din; Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn[2]) or Kincardine-on-Forth is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland.

The townscape retains many good examples of Scottish vernacular buildings from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, although it was greatly altered during the construction of Kincardine Bridge in 1932–1936.

[5] The second element is Pictish *carden, conceivably loaned into Gaelic, meaning "woodland" or perhaps "enclosure, encampment" (Middle Welsh cardden).

[4] The first element is the Gaelic ceann, "head end",[4] but in view of the second element's "Pictish" distribution, it is most appropriately seen as an adaptation or translation of the cognate Pictish *pen,[4] of the same meaning (Welsh pen),[4] and the original form may have been *Pencarden.

[7] Kincardine is also the location of the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan Castle on the outskirts of the town.