History and Information about the Village

Although the population of the village of Strathkinness has not varied a great deal, the population of the farms has considerably decreased. With the system of hiring farm labour every year there had been a large transient agricultural population and modern farming methods have further greatly reduced the number of workers needed on a farm.

Hand-loom weaving disappeared long ago and the village is no longer based on quarrying or even agriculture. A variety of people have come to live in Strathkinness. They have altered the nature of the village, but they have also helped to keep it alive. In spite of all its changes Strathkinness is still very much a village.

(Editor's note: Latest population estimate is 800 as of 30/06/2019)

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A History of Strathkinness Churches 1801-2023 - written by Peter Royds

Introduction

At the request of St. Mark’s Church, St. Andrews, I have written this compilation on churches in Strathkinness
for their website. (St. Mark’s is now the parish church for Strathkinness.) It is not about the religious practices
of the church so much as the story of what has happened to the churches in the village, over the years.
At the time of writing (December 2023) Strathkinness Church is on the verge of permanent closure, so
what follows could also serve as a valediction.
Historical information has been taken from Nelda Seed’s “Strathkinness – A Glimpse of a Scottish Village”
(171 pages, 1986); and an article by Rev. John Hall written in 1964 for the Strathkinness Parish magazine on
the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the parish church (1864).

I am more than grateful to my daughter Elizabeth for typing this up.

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