Dalgety Bay

Dalgety Bay ( ) is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, nine miles (14 kilometres) from Edinburgh city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. Dalgety bay was named after the original village of Dalgety, evident by the ruins of the 12th century St Bridget's Kirk. The root of the place-name Dalgety is the Scottish Gaelic word dealg, 'thorn', and the full name originally meant 'the place of the t...