Culross

Culross, an old-world village of Fife (till 1890 in a detached portion of Perthshire), on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, 7 miles W. by S. of Dunfermline. With memories of St Serf and St Kentigern, James VI.; and the Elgin and Dundonald families, it has remains of a Cistercian abbey (1217), but has lost its manufacture of 'girdles,' its saltworks, shipping, and submarine coal-mines. A royal burgh since 1588, it unites with Stirling and three other towns to return one member to parliament. Pop. 370. See Beveridge's Culross and Tulliallan (1885).