Dysart Trust

Around Dysart

History

Dysart is a town and former royal burgh located on the south-east coast between Kirkcaldy and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland

The first record of the town was made in the early 13th century. During the middle of the 15th century, salt and coal were exported to the Low Countries. In the 16th and 17th centuries, trade expanded to the Baltic.

Following the sudden decline of the town’s harbour caused by the closure of the Lady Blanche Pit, the town was amalgamated into the royal burgh of Kirkcaldy under an act of parliament in 1930.

Urban clearance during the 1950s and 1960s saw large parts of the historic town demolished for new housing. Part of the historic town — most notably the 16th-century and the 18th-century houses of Pan Ha’ opposite the harbour — were salvaged and preserved for future generations.

Dysart Today

International trade and industrial activity has now ceased. There is still a flourishing harbour, although with leisure and small scale inshore creel vessels.

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