page_title: Dalgety Bay
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dalgety Bay / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Dalgety Bay Harbour. This tiny harbour, built in the 1800s to house the Earl of Moray's yacht is located within the grounds of the Dalgety Bay Sailing Club.
context_page_description: Dalgety Bay is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland. According to Fife Council, the town is home to 10,030, making this the eighth-largest place in Fife. The civil parish has a population of 10,777. Dalgety Bay is part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region.
  The bay was named after the original village of Dalgety, but the ruins of the 12th century St Bridget's Kirk are all that now mark the site. The new town, of which building started in 1965, takes its name from the main bay it adjoins, but the town stretches over many bays and coves including Donibristle Bay and St David's Bay. The root of the place-name Dalgety is the Scottish Gaelic word dealg, 'thorn', and the full name originally meant 'the place of the thorn[-bushes]'.
  Dalgety Bay is a dormitory suburb of Edinburgh. While the architecture of the town reflects construction by volume housebuilders, the town is a regular winner of the Best Kept Small Town title. Its rise in population mirrors its rise in popularity as a coastal commuter town.
  A series of radioactive objects have been found on the shoreline of Dalgety Bay since the 1990s.
context_section_description: Dalgety Bay began as the village of Dalgety, which was built on the site of the 12th century St Bridget's Kirk. The land surrounding the town was part of the estate owned by the Earls of Moray who built Donibristle House as their residence. In 1592 James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray was murdered on the seashore near Donibristle by his rival George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, which is remembered in the popular ballad The Bonnie Earl O' Moray. Towards the end of the 18th century, the village was removed by order of the Earls of Moray. During the First World War Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray donated a portion of his land to the Crown, which built an airfield there in 1917 as a base for the Royal Naval Air Service.  The town also sent 30 men into the First World War, with only eight returning unharmed. The Royal Naval Air Service improved and expanded the aerodrome during the Second World War as HMS Merlin, an air station, and constructed an extensive aircraft maintenance facility there.
  Construction of the modern town of Dalgety Bay as Scotland's first "enterprise town" began around 1965 on the land of the airstrip and much of the remaining ground of the Earls of Moray family seat, Donibristle House. The town stretches across several bays and coves of the northern coast of the Firth of Forth including Donibristle Bay and St David's Bay.
caption: Dalgety Bay Harbour
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