This piece of water is well stored with fish, and being surrounded by some romantic scenery, is a beautiful object in the view of the country. It is bounded by Dalgetty, Dunfermline, Burntisland and Auchtertool. The island of Inchcolm belongs to this parish. There is a harbour which admits vessels of 200 tons burden. Though not large, as many as 25 vessels have been crowded into it at one time.
Imports are small, chiefly manure.
But it is as a bathing resort for summer visitors that Aberdour is best known. As it has daily communication by steam with Edinburgh, its shores are a favourite retreat to the inhabitants of the Scottish capital during the heats of summer. Anstruther Easter, which became a burgh of barony in 1572 and a royal burgh in 1587, lies between Caddys Burn on the east and the Dreel Burn on the west. This building was abandoned in 1982 and destroyed by fire in 1991. The harbour of Anstruther Easter was the capital of the winter herring fleet prior to the First World War and close to it stands the Scottish Fisheries Museum which was opened in 1969.