Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter road trip drive, with music, East on the A921 coast road through Kinghorn and Burntisland on ancestry visit to and through Kirkcaldy in Fife. The A921 is the coast road from the Queensferry Crossing Forth Road Bridge to Kirkcaldy, it was formerly the A92. Once into Kirkcaldy the A921 follows the Promenade, part dual, part single carriageway. Kirkcaldy is one of the larger towns in Fife, lying on the coast due north of Edinburgh. The town has a long industrial history with coal mines, mills and factories all in the local area. Kirkcaldy was also an important trading port in the past. Today Kirkcaldy is a busy town, with some affluent areas and also some less well off parts of town. Kinghorn is known as the place where King Alexander III of Scotland died, it lies on the A921 road and the Fife Coastal Path. Burntisland was held by the Jacobite army for over two months during the rising known as the Fifteen. The Jacobites first of all raided the port on 2 October 1715, capturing several hundred weapons, then occupied it on 9 October. They held it until it was recaptured by the Government on 19 December.

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