Crail is a former royal burgh, parish and community council area in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Crail
Crail Tolbooth (on the left)
The unusual stonework at Crail Harbour
Crail Harbour
A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal burghs.
Falkland in Fife, created a royal burgh in 1458
Burghs by 1153