IF Dunfermline to you means Amazon, Sky and a sadly recently relegated football team, then it’s time to think again. One of Scotland’s fastest growing towns has just been proclaimed the country’s eighth city.
That should be no surprise as this is the historic hub that spawned James I, Charles I and Andrew Carnegie. And both Big Country’s Stuart Adamson and the new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, grew up around this remarkable soon-to-be city.
The award of city status to one of Scotland’s oldest settlements is a massive boost that will really put Dunfermline on the 21st-century map. Not that it should really need that given its epic history. Indeed, this picturesque old royal burgh on a hillside just north of the Firth of Forth has been slowly reawakening and the seal of city status just crowns this renaissance.
