page_title: Kinkell, Fife
section_title: Recent years
hierarchical_section_title: Kinkell, Fife / Recent years
caption_attribution_description: English: Castle Course, Kinkell Braes Most of the heavy plant has gone, the greens are all sown and the trees are planted on the Links Trust course No 7 now named as the Castle Course, St Andrews. Due to open next year, 2008. See what it was like almost 2 years ago 15008
context_page_description: Kinkell was an estate to the east of St Andrews in Scotland.
  In the Middle Ages it was the site of a chapel, hospital, dovecote and a castle or manor house.
  The castle was an important location for conventicles in the period following the restoration of the House of Stuart.
  Little trace of the buildings remain, but the name is preserved in Kinkell Ness, Kinkell Braes, Kinkell Byre, Kinkell Farm and so on.
  The braes are now occupied by modern structures such as a caravan park, waste treatment plant, farm and golf course.
context_section_description: By the 18th century the castle was in a ruinous state.
  At the start of the nineteenth century the remains of the castle and chapel were still standing on the brae above Kinkell harbour.
  However, an 1884 book said the site was "merely a rocky face, studded with blooming whins in summer, and a row of blasted ash-trees".
  A new golf course was built in the area in the 2000s, taking up a large part of Kinkell farm on the brae above Kinkell harbor, but no trace was found of the castle. If it had been found it would have made the course more attractive, but would also have added costs due to the need to work round archaeological excavations.
caption: Castle Course, Kinkell Braes, January 2007
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