Since the Second World War many new houses have been built in Newburgh but the population has only increased by about 10%, partly due to lower average occupancy rates.

For some time, Newburgh's industries chiefly consisted of the making of linen, linoleum floorcloth, oilskin fabric and quarrying.

As linoleum fell out of fashion in the late 1960s and 1970s, attempts were made to produce vinyl flooring and tiles but the factory was no longer profitable.

Since before the First World War, its mostly female workers produced oilskin fabric for waterproof clothing such as fishermen's suits and Sou'westers.

Local trades and services include a health centre, nursing home, and supermarket on the site of the former Ship Inn.

After many years of lying derelict, the linoleum factory was demolished and cleared and its site is now a recreational waterfront linked to the Mugdrum Park and the Fife Coastal Path.

Newburgh Town House was designed in the Italianate style, with a central tower and spire, and built on the south side of the High Street in 1808.

[7] In legend, it marks the spot where clan Macduff was granted rights of sanctuary and composition for murder, in return for its chief's services against Macbeth.

Only fragments remain of the Tironensian (reformed Benedictine) abbey, founded about 1190 by David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William I the Lion.

Lindores Abbey is also famous as the birthplace of Scotch Whisky owing to its links to Friar John Cor and the Exchequer Rolls of 1494.

[11][12] Archeological excavations have shown that the fort was occupied between the sixth and eighth centuries AD, as a site of high status.

At Blackearnside, a forest of alders, to the east of the village, William Wallace defeated Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1298.