The path will bring us through the woods and down to the site of the old Buckhaven Harbour and Auld Buckhyne – the original village in the area.
The original village was a small, self-sufficient fishing community whose men, supported by their women and children onshore, caught herring in the Forth to sell in Edinburgh. In the 19th Century, Auld Buckhyne boasted the second largest fishing fleet in Scotland and the safest harbour on the coast. Weavers and boat-builders set up shop in droves. But within a hundred years, the herring had gone and the houses were deserted as families moved up the braes to a new way of life. The village was demolished in the 1960s prior to wholescale redevelopment.
